Amour Fou

Foreign Film Series ~ Amour Fou

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
  • Chief Theater, 813 Lincoln Ave.

The library's free foreign film series continues with an international film festival favorite from Austria, Luxembourg and Germany directed by Jessica Hausner, screening at the Chief Theater.

"Top Ten List for 2014. One of the great films about the nature of love. Brilliantly employs lieder by Mozart and Beethoven." – Artforum

Forever under-appreciated and melancholy, Heinrich is a young poet in Romantic Era Berlin who determines his best way out of despair is to end it all, and he sets about finding a woman to join him in his predetermined departure. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, the well-off but unremarkable Henrietta, fascinated by Heinrich's controversial "The Marquise of O," finds his offer intriguing, if a bit strange. And yet, she agrees to navigate the uncharted journey towards a suicide pact with him, at once awkward and enlightening for them both. Rather than a declaration of passionate devotion, Amour Fou - inspired by the actual suicide in 1811 of Heinrich von Kleist and Henrietta Vogel - goes against expectations to become a wry and curious denunciation of dying for love.

In German with English subtitles.
Run time: 96 min.
The free screening includes an award-wining short & a cash bar.