Mad Love

Mad Love (1985)

L'Amour braque

After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.

Date of release
1985-02-27
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (58)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Drama, Crime, Romance, Comedy
Director
Andrzej Żuławski

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Paris

L'Amour braque is a 1985 French romantic drama film directed by Andrzej Żuławski and starring Sophie Marceau, Francis Huster, and Tchéky Karyo. The film is about a bank robber on his way to Paris who meets a neurotic dreamer whom he considers to be an idiot. The dreamer follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with his girlfriend, resulting in a tragic ending. The film is loosely inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel The Idiot. The film received a Fantasporto International Fantasy Film Award Nomination for Best Film in 1986.

Production

It was the first cinematic collaboration between Sophie Marceau and Andrzej Żuławski, who later made three more films together.

Żuławski cast Marceau after seeing her in Fort Saganne. "I was struck by Sophie's quality of immediate truth," said Żuławski. "It could have been her youth. But when we met, it was obvious that it came from inside her."

"He gets things out of his actors that they never knew were there," said Marceau of the director. "Sometimes it hurts, yet you are changed by it."

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