L'Amour

L'Amour (1973)

A deliciously naughty saga of innocents abroad … it’s fun – what more can one ask for?

Donna and Jane are two American hippies, searching for sex and romance in Paris but, mainly, rich husbands. Eventually, Donna finds a perfume industrialist, Michael, who wishes to marry her, providing she will accept sharing his special friendship with local gigolo Max. Drama ensues as Michael changes his mind when meeting Jane, but all is well that ends well.

Date of release
1973-05-10
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama
Director
Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol

Casting

Interesting facts

L'Amour, also known as Andy Warhol's L'Amour, is a 1972 underground film written and directed by Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol. The film stars Donna Jordan, Michael Sklar, Jane Forth, and Max Delys.

Production

Warhol superstars Jane Forth, Donna Jordan, Jay Johnson, and Corey Tippin were among illustrator Antonio Lopez's entourage and modeling in Paris by the summer of 1970. Forth was writing about their mischief to Warhol. The "really naughty" life they had been leading there served as the inspiration for the movie L'Amour.

L'Amour was filmed in one month in Paris from October to November 1970. Warhol financed the film and it was directed by Paul Morrissey, but Warhol was given credit as a co-director by the designers of the film's advertising. Warhol turned over his cameraman duties to his boyfriend Jed Johnson, who had primarily been an editor.

During the production, the actors were evicted from three hotels. Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who appears in the film, lent Warhol and his entourage his apartment as a set and another apartment was borrowed from a friend of Brigid Berlin's. "I guess we went over there because we had a lot of apartments," said director Paul Morrissey. "That's the most important ingredient. We had run out of New York apartments," he added.

In a panel discussion following a screening of the film in 1972, Warhol said, "'We're now up to 1955 in moviemaking.' in explaining that he included shots of historical Paris sites as a continuity device since the film lacked a script and was improvise day-by-day."

Two of the working titles for the film were Gold Diggers '71 and Les Pissoirs de Paris.

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