Amour fou
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Amour fou is French for mad love and mad passion. It was a concept essential to the surrealist doctrine and can be seen in the films of Luis Buñuel.
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Namesakes
Mad Love or amour fou is the name of:
- Mad Love (1935 film), a 1935 film starring Peter Lorre
- Mad Love (Breton), a collection of poems by André Breton
- L'Amour fou : Photography and Surrealism (a book on surrealism and photography)
- L'amour fou, a film by Jacques Rivette
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See also
- Cinema of Obsession: Erotic Obsession and Love Gone Wrong
- Folie à deux
- Liebestod
- Love
- Madness
- Obsession
- Passion
- Theia mania
- Unrequited love
- Love sickness
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