Fou D Amour by Philippe Ramos tells the story of man accused of two murders in France (1959).

Found guilty, he is condemned to death. He is guillotined. But his head begins to tell the story of his life. He was a priest. He loved life, he loved women, he loved God and preached every Sunday in his church. A perfect life! An admired priest, a wonderful lover, his earthly paradise seemed neverending... “In my earlier film, Ici-bas, I placed all the anguish of the world on the shoulders of the priest, imbuing the story with a suffocating gravity: the lively and seductive side to the murderer was largely discarded. This left me with a sense of unfinished business. With FOU D’AMOUR, just as a painter repeats his motif in order to explore new aspects, I reworked my ‘canvas’: this time, the happiness and pleasure would be voluble and would precede the devastating madness. So the film has a lighter, even humorous tone, before the colours change here and there to create a deteriorating atmosphere and a darkening mood, until it all turns black and tragic.” -- Philippe Ramos 

FOU D'AMOUR / MAD LOVE

2015, Colour, France, World Competition 

Production Team

Director : Philippe Ramos

Screenwriter : Philippe Ramos

Cinematographer : Philippe Ramos

Editor : Philippe Ramos

Cast : Melvil Poupaud, Dominique Blanc, Diane Rouxel, Lise Lamétrie, Jean-François Stévenin, Jacques Bonnafé, Jean-Paul Bodet, Virginie Petit

Music : Pierre-Stéphane Meugé

Film production and Sales : Prod. & Ventes/Sales: Paulo Branco, Alfama Films, 78 rue de Turbigo, 75003 Paris (France), tél.: +33 (01) 42 01 07 05, alfamafilms@orange.fr / Andrea Dos Santos, andrea.alfamafilms@orange.fr.

Synopsis

Director

Born in 1966, Philippe Ramos attended the Paris film school La Fémis and is part of a group of young French film directors sometimes referred to as the new wave of French cinema, a group including Yves Caumon, Jean-Paul Civeyrac and François Ozon. After a series of shorts films -- Les îles désertes (1993), Vers le silence (1995), Ici-bas (1996), L'Arche de Noé (2000), Capitaine Achab (2003) -- he made his feature debut with ADIEU PAYS in 2003. Four years later he made a feature-length version of CAPITAINE ACHAB (best director at the Locarno Festival), followed by JEANNE CAPTIVE in 2011.