Amour Fou ("mad love") is a 2014 Austrian film directed by Jessica Hausner, starring Christian Friedel and Birte Schnöink.

The story is set in Berlin in 1810 and 1811, and follows the German writer Heinrich von Kleist and his lover Henriette Vogel in the final stages of their lives.

[1] In Berlin the affluent Henriette Vogel holds a soiree where the poet Heinrich von Kleist attends.

Heinrich approaches his close friend and cousin Marie and after telling her how living has become painful to him he asks her to consider dying with him in a murder-suicide pact.

Heinrich once again asks Marie to die with him and she refuses telling him that though life is stupid and pointless it is important to seek out the good.

Having conclusively been rejected by Marie, Heinrich returns to Henriette and tells her he has been thinking of her constantly and asks her to renew their pact.

After learning of the death of his wife Vogel searches his desk for a letter and eventually finds the note that Henriette wrote to him before her first planned suicide attempt hidden in a drawer.

[2] A great deal of research was put into the costumes and production design in order to avoid clichés seen in many period films.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Amour Fou risks overpowering its deceptively impactful story with its remarkable visuals, but ultimately forms a fascinating whole.

"[5] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 69 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".