
Berlin, the Romantic Era. 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.... (Full plot summary below)
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Berlin, the Romantic Era. 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.
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| ViceMichael NordineIts contemplative musings and understated beauty contribute to an oddly immersive rhythm that, once established, is easy to get lost in. |
| HitFixGuy LodgeFrom this droll premise, potentially as dark and dry as blackened toast, Hausner spins a witty, unexpectedly touching meditation on the nature of partnership and the elasticity of fate. |
| New York TimesManohla Dargisit can be a strategically off-putting movie yet one that also steals under your skin scene by scene and through Ms. Schnoeink’s slowly revealing performance as an ill-fated heroine turned future biographical footnote. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohSo sober and seemingly passionless that some may resist, but it's undeniably hard to shake off. |
| NewsdayJohn AndersonLess than propulsive as a narrative, but provocative, instructive, consistently surprising and a kind of slow-motion thriller. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinThat writer-director Jessica Hausner moves things along at such a glacial pace and fills her velvety frames with the equivalent of museum-quality oil paintings instead of with living, breathing humanity, only adds to the film's turgid quality. |
| Time OutKeith UhlichOne thing’s certain: This is no swoony love story. It intoxicates all the same. |
| AV ClubA.A. DowdThe artificiality is funny but also thematically resonant: This is a film about fake feelings, the invented romance for which two strangers forfeited their futures. And to Hausner, such a colossal waste of potential deserves not a melodramatic tribute, but the cinematic equivalent of an eye-roll. |
| The Arts DeskKieron TylerVisually, Amour Fou is as dreamlike as the states affecting its languorous protagonists. |
| Times (UK)Kate MuirJessica Hausner's Amour Fou frames German Romanticism from a female perspective, gently poking fun at the true story of the selfish, pompous poet Heinrich von Kleist and his suicide pact with Henriette Vogel in 1811. |