L'Amour Fou Blu-ray

'L'amour fou' Director: Jacques Rivette (1969, 255mins) Radiance Blu-ray | 4K restoration | French w/ English subtitles

Sébastien is staging an adaptation of Racine’s tragedy, Andromaque, while a film crew captures their rehearsals on handheld 16mm. The production’s star and Sébastien’s wife, cannot take the pressure and removes herself. Life imitates art, creating a tragedy for the couple when Sébastien recasts the role with his ex.

L’amour fou is a hypnotic study of tempestuous love, told with director Jacques Rivette’s signature reflexivity and containing striking examinations of performance, art, theatre and life. A classic of the French New Wave and one of Rivette’s most radical works, L’amour fou was unavailable for years, with the original elements tragically burned in a fire.

Special features include:
- Newly filmed feature-length documentary featuring new interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and Rivette collaborator Pascal Bonitzer; Rivette biographer Antoine de Baecque; critic/historian Sylvie Pierre; and archival footage of Jacques Rivette (Robert Fischer, 2024, 95 mins)
- New interview with Caroline Champetier, renowned cinematographer and restoration supervisor (2024)
- Video essay by film critics Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin (2024)