Amour Fou

Amour Fou
Director
Jessica Hausner
Country
Austria, Luxemburg, Germany
Year
2014
Genre
Drama, Fiction
Scriptwriters
Jessica Hausner
Cast
Christian Friedl, Birte Schnöink, Stephan Grossmann, Peter Jordan, Sebastian Hülk, Katharina Schüttler, Sandra Hüller
Production
COOP 99, Lumiere

Storyline

Amour Fou" is inspired by the life and death of the poet Heinrich von Kleist and his partner in death, Henriette Vogel. However, rather than being a biographical portrait, the film is to be understood as a parallel above the ambivalence of love.

"Amour Fou" deals with the ambivalence and absurdity inherent in the very concept of two people committing suicide because of their love for one another. The goal behind such an act is the yearning to escape the inevitability of death through love, to avoid dying alone and to oppose all-powerful death by dictating the term's of one's death. However the fundamental absurdity lies in the fact that the joint act cannot be experienced jointly in any complete sense, since love is fickle and ambivalent, and everybody- in the final analysis- must die alone.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Festival de Cannes 2014
Un Certain Regard
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2014
Horizons Section
Toronto International Film Festival 2014
Contemporary World Cinema
Film Fest Gent 2014
Seville European Film Festival 2014
Official Section
Focus Europa

European Film Awards (EFA) 2014
Selected
Austrian Film Prize 2015
Best screenplay, Best editing

Releases

Spain (28 of November 2014)

Call for proposals i2i Audiovisual
Year 2013
Call number 34/2012
Media support 38.475,00 €

EACEA 34/2012 - Deadline 07/06/1
COOP 99

Call for proposals Distribution Selective
Year 2014
Call number 22/2013

Selective Scheme Call 22/2013:
BA: OBALA ART CENTAR SARAJEVO UG, 5.300 Euro
BE: Lumière Publishing NV, 4.800 Euro
CZ: FILM EUROPE, s.r.o., 4.500 Euro
DE: NEUE VISIONEN FILMVERLEIH GMBH, 99.600 Euro
DK: IS ØST FOR PARADIS VENNER, 15.500 Euro
EE: MUST KASI 2 OU, 5.300 Euro
EL: FEELGOOD ENTERTAINMENT S.A, 4.500 Euro
ES: PACO POCH CINEMA S.L. A, 35.700 Euro
FR: JOUR2FETE, 64.400 Euro
HU: CIRKO FILM KFT, 8.800 Euro
IS: HEIMILI KVIKMYNDANNA SES. - BÍÓ PARADÍS, 3.000 Euro
LU: AMOUR FOU LUXEMBOURG SARL, 5.300 Euro
NL: L Stichting Film Instituut Nederland, 14.200 Euro
PL: SPECTATOR MACIEJ POZNEROWICZ, 33.700 Eruo
PT: Alambique - Destilaria de Ideias Lda, 8.800 Euro
SE: FOLKETS BIO AB, 21.300 Euro
SK: FILM EUROPE SRO, 3.000 Euro
UK: ARROW FILMS, 35.700 Euro

Call for proposals Distribution Selective
Year 2014
Call number 23/2014

Country: Romania

Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Year 2014
Call number EAC/S28/2013 Automatic Reinvestment

MEDIA Support to: HEIMILI KVIKMYNDANNA SES. - BÍÓ PARADÍS (IS), ALAMBIQUE - DESTILARIA DE IDEIAS LDA (PT), JOUR2FETE (FR), CIRKO FILM KFT (HU)