Mad Love (2015 film) explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mad Love . Cineuropa.
2. Web site: Montreal reveals 2015 winners . Screendaily.
3. Web site: Fou d'amour (2015), directed by Philippe Ramos. 14 May 2022. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma. fr.