Mad Love (1985)
aka L’amour braque
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Surreal
Country: France | Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Language: French | Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.66:1 | Length: 105mn
Bdrip H264 Mkv – 1800×1080 – 23.976fps – 3.92gb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088714/
After the successful bank robbery Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Mary who has been taken from him by the brothers Venin. On the way to Paris he meets one Leon, a neurotic and dreamer, whom he and his associates consider an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Mary. This strange love triangle resolves in a tragic ending. Strange it may seem but the credits tell us that “The film is inspired by Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” and intended as a homage to the great writer”.
Indescribable. Zulawskis rendition of Dostojewski steps over the borders. This is surreal theater from it’s most outside, most avant-garde, and yes, it’s most autonomous perspective. The viewer is entertained, no doubt; and everything he sees is staged for his entertainment; but never is there a doubt that this is a form art that lives beyond the category of entertainment. To prove that such an art is possible, Zulawski makes his actors transform into lifeless figures that recite paradox phrases; and with that, he makes them the vulnerable animals that people really are, behind their masks. If you look at the dark sides, you can also find innocence, but you won’t find reason or rationality – only sheer emotion, usually struggling with one’s minds rational side, but the latter is entirely lost here. Still, the protagonists find ways to give their lives a philosophical fundament, and they spent the whole of the film arguing about them, thereby feeling pain, enduring humiliation, reaching for freedom. Harshly uncompromising, ever unforgettable.
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