Amour Fou

Heinrich is a melancholy young poet in Romantic Era Berlin who determines his best way out of despair is to end it all. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, Henrietta, fascinated by Heinrich’s controversial “The Marquise of O,” finds his plan intriguing, and she agrees to navigate the uncharted journey towards a suicide pact with him. Amour Fou—inspired by the actual suicide in 1811 of Heinrich von Kleist and Henriette Vogel—goes against expectations to become a wry and curious denunciation of dying for love.

“An eccentric, coolly deadpan story of love, including that of the self. . . . A sharp, light look into the abyss, Amour Fou . . . steals under your skin scene by scene.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times (2015)