Amour Fou can be very opaque about what’s roiling underneath this perverse biopic, but that doesn’t make its final moments any less affecting.

| Jan 23, 2023

It's a truly a film you don't want to look away from.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2020

Hausner has a created a studied and visually beautiful film that calmly presents a strange, haunting and fascinating true story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2019

Hausner's tactful camera rarely moves, capturing still lives of perfect minimalist composition. The tragedy of Amour Fou is of the quiet variety, and it's one which Hausner has pitched almost perfectly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2019

Amour Fou is a splendid and superbly crafted comedy for the intellectual.

| Aug 23, 2018

The story has the potential to be emotionally bombastic, but Hausner's careful direction keeps us at a determined remove.

| Jun 26, 2018

Hausner is very skilled at bringing out the ambiguities of her material, and keeps shifting the tone towards sardonic humour.

| Sep 26, 2017

Ms. Hausner's film proceeds at a stately, measured pace, and uses classical compositions and stiff exchanges to underline the tedium of early 19th-century bourgeois life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2016

The film looks very beautiful, austere for sure but gorgeously staged and framed. The performances are very good but although it's not very long, it does lack some punch. One for fans of austere auteurs.

| Jun 13, 2016

The Austrian director's sixth film is ecstatically original: a work of film-history-philosophy with a digital-cinema palette of acutely crafted compositions.

| Original Score: A | Jun 6, 2016

Fatally labors under excessively Teutonic discipline.

| Original Score: 2.5 | May 20, 2016

The build-up scenes of talk and philosophising, in salons and sitting rooms, are hypnotic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2015

From this droll premise, potentially as dark and dry as blackened toast, Hausner spins a witty, unexpectedly touching meditation on the nature of partnership and the elasticity of fate.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 4, 2015

This visual confinement underscores the lack of intimacy and agency in Henriette's life. Her longing for escape is understandable. She's surrounded by men for whom a woman's life is predicated on silence.

| Aug 3, 2015

Hausner has cast the movie brilliantly: We know volumes about wife, husband, and poet just from their faces and the way they move.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2015

There's no blood pumping through Hausner's characters' veins.

| Original Score: C | Jun 17, 2015

Less than propulsive as a narrative, but provocative, instructive, consistently surprising and a kind of slow-motion thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 26, 2015

Despite being inspired by actual events, it all comes off more confounding than tragic or romantic.

| Mar 19, 2015

Despite the film's tightly constructed reserve, Hausner saves one last trick for the end: As unknowable as these characters are, you may be surprised how much you miss them.

| Mar 18, 2015

Finely finessed in gesture and metronymically measured in pace.

| Mar 18, 2015