L'amour braque (1985)

Original title

L'Amour braque

Directed by

Andrzej Żuławski

Genre

drama film, melodrama

Country

France

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

18

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A bank robber traveling to Paris crosses paths with a neurotic dreamer he dismisses as an idiot. The dreamer becomes obsessed with him and soon falls in love with the robber's girlfriend, leading to a tragic outcome.

intensedarkly romanticfrenetictragicpsychologically rawpassionatechaotic

What happens

L'Amour braque (English: Mad Love) is a 1985 French romantic drama film directed by Andrzej Żuławski and starring Sophie Marceau, Francis Huster, and Tchéky Karyo. The film is about a bank robber on his way to Paris who meets a neurotic dreamer whom he considers to be an idiot. The dreamer follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with his girlfriend, resulting in a tragic ending. The film is loosely inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel The Idiot. The film received a Fantasporto International Fantasy Film Award Nomination for Best Film in 1986. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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