Amour Fou
Director: Jessica Hausner
Stars: Birte Schnöink, Christian Friedel, Stephan Grossmann
Sat 14 Mar 7.30pm Book Now
Duration: 95mins
AGE Rating: Cert 12A
Adults £6 / Under-15 £4
German-language film with subtitles.
Amour Fou is an Austrian film based on the final year of the writer Heinrich von Kleist. Set in Berlin, during the Romantic Era, the young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin’s insensitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance. Heinrich’s subsequent offer to the beguiling young woman at first holds scant appeal, that is until Henriette discovers she is suffering from a terminal illness.
