Amour fou
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Amour fou is French for mad love and mad passion. It was a concept essential to the surrealist doctrine and can be seen in the films of Luis Buñuel.
- "Above all else, the surrealists insisted that the relationship between film and spectator was primarily libidinal. That Paul Éluard discovered Peter Ibbetson (a 1935 Hollywood film that Breton considered comparable only to Luis Buñuel's L'Âge d'or in its depiction of L'Amour fou) by impulsively trailing an attractive woman into a movie theater was seen as ultimate proof." --Midnight Movies (1983). page 36.
Namesakes
Mad Love or amour fou is the name of:
- Mad Love (1935 film), a 1935 film starring Peter Lorre
- Mad Love (Breton), a collection of poems by André Breton
- L'Amour fou : Photography and Surrealism (a book on surrealism and photography)
See also
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