Mad Love (2015 film)
2015 film by Philippe Ramos
- 24 August 2015 (2015-08-24) (Gindou Film Festival)
- 16 September 2015 (2015-09-16) (France)
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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
- Melvil Poupaud as the Priest
- Dominique Blanc as Armance
- Diane Rouxel as Rose
- Lise Lamétrie as Lisette
- Jean-François Stévenin as the Priest of Mantaille
- J.P. 'Van Gogh' Bodet as Félix the postman
- Jacques Bonnaffé as the great vicar
- Virginie Petit as Mademoiselle Desboine
- Nathalie Tetrel as Jacqueline the milkmaid
- Vanina Delannoy as Solange the cousin
- Anaïs Lesoil as Odette
Production
Filming took place during the summer of 2014 in the Ain department, including Champagne-en-Valromey as well as in Belmont-Luthézieu, Virieu-le-Petit, Ceyzérieu, Virignin, Oncieu, Condon, Chanaz.[3]
References
External links
- Official website(in French)
- Mad Love at IMDb
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Films directed by Philippe Ramos
- Noah's Ark (2000)
- Farewell Homeland (2003)
- Capitaine Achab (2007)
- The Silence of Joan (2011)
- Mad Love (2015)
- Capitaine Achab (2004)
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