Mad Love (2015 film)

Mad Love
Film poster
Directed by Philippe Ramos
Produced by Paulo Branco
Written by Philippe Ramos
Starring Melvil Poupaud
Dominique Blanc
Diane Rouxel
Music by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé
Cinematography Philippe Ramos
Edited by Philippe Ramos
Production
company
Alfama Films
Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
Distributed by Alfama Films
Release date
  • 24 August 2015 (2015-08-24) (Gindou Film Festival)
  • 16 September 2015 (2015-09-16) (France)
Running time
107 minutes
Country France
Language French

Mad Love (original title: Fou d'amour) is a 2015 French drama film directed by Philippe Ramos and starring Melvil Poupaud, Dominique Blanc and Diane Rouxel. It is an adaptation of Ramos' 1996 short film Ici-bas, which was in turn inspired by the Affair of the Uruffe priest in the 1950s.[1] It won the Grand Prix des Amériques at the Montreal World Film Festival.[2]

Plot

Set in France in 1959, a man who is convicted of a double murder is guillotined and subsequently the detached head begins to recount the events leading to his death.

Cast

References

  1. "Mad Love". Cineuropa.
  2. "Montreal reveals 2015 winners". Screendaily.
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