• Director(s)

    Jacques Rivette

  • Production Year

    1969

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    255m

  • Cast

    Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Josée Destoop

Film

L'amour fou

domestic abuse, sexual violence

L’AMOUR FOU is a French drama in which a married couple’s relationship is tested by their involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.…

L’AMOUR FOU is a French drama in which a married couple’s relationship is tested by their involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.

violence
There are scenes in which a married couple are emotionally and physically abusive towards one another. In one such scene, a woman holds a sharp pin close to a man’s eye as he sleeps, and later she threatens him with a gun before he puts his hand around her throat. The man begins cutting up his clothes with a razor blade and a pair of scissors when his wife asks him for a divorce.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man is seen forcefully stripping a woman of her clothes and pushing her down onto a bed before lying on top of her.
additional issues
There is bloody detail in the aftermath of implied, off-screen self-harm. It is revealed a person has attempted to take their own life off-screen, but there is little descriptive detail. A couple are seen embracing and kissing in bed in various scenes. A woman worries that her partner is having an affair. A woman offers her colleague a sedative pill and he jokes that he would rather take ‘speed’. There is use of moderate bad language (‘bitch’), and milder terms (‘bastard’, ‘tits’, ‘screw’, ‘hell’) are also used. People are seen smoking throughout the film.

  • Director(s)

    Jacques Rivette

  • Production Year

    1969

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    255m

  • Cast

    Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Josée Destoop

domestic abuse, sexual violence
Classified Date:
18/12/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Radiance Films
violence
There are scenes in which a married couple are emotionally and physically abusive towards one another. In one such scene, a woman holds a sharp pin close to a man’s eye as he sleeps, and later she threatens him with a gun before he puts his hand around her throat. The man begins cutting up his clothes with a razor blade and a pair of scissors when his wife asks him for a divorce.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man is seen forcefully stripping a woman of her clothes and pushing her down onto a bed before lying on top of her.
additional issues
There is bloody detail in the aftermath of implied, off-screen self-harm. It is revealed a person has attempted to take their own life off-screen, but there is little descriptive detail. A couple are seen embracing and kissing in bed in various scenes. A woman worries that her partner is having an affair. A woman offers her colleague a sedative pill and he jokes that he would rather take ‘speed’. There is use of moderate bad language (‘bitch’), and milder terms (‘bastard’, ‘tits’, ‘screw’, ‘hell’) are also used. People are seen smoking throughout the film.

  • Classified date

    18/12/2023

  • Language

    French