Mad Love (2015 film)
# Mad Love (2015 film)

Mad Love (original title: Fou d'amour) is a 2015 French drama film directed by Philippe Ramos and starring Melvil Poupaud, Dominique Blanc and Diane Rouxel. It is an adaptation of Ramos' 1996 short film Ici-bas, which was in turn inspired by the Affair of the Uruffe priest in the 1950s. It won the Grand Prix des Amériques at the Montreal World Film Festival.

## Plot

Set in France in 1959, a man who is convicted of a double murder is guillotined and subsequently the detached head begins to recount the events leading to his death.

## Cast

* Melvil Poupaud as the Priest
* Dominique Blanc as Armance
* Diane Rouxel as Rose
* Lise Lamétrie as Lisette
* Jean-François Stévenin as the Priest of Mantaille
* J.P. 'Van Gogh' Bodet as Félix the postman
* Jacques Bonnaffé as the great vicar
* Virginie Petit as Mademoiselle Desboine
* Nathalie Tetrel as Jacqueline the milkmaid
* Vanina Delannoy as Solange the cousin
* Anaïs Lesoil as Odette

## Production

Filming took place during the summer of 2014 in the Ain department, including Champagne-en-Valromey as well as in Belmont-Luthézieu, Virieu-le-Petit, Ceyzérieu, Virignin, Oncieu, Condon, Chanaz.

