Ah, L'Amour [SEP] director
Ah, L'Amour
Ah, L'Amour (1995) is Don Hertzfeldt's first 16mm student animated short film, completed at the age of 18 at UC Santa Barbara. Though produced for a beginning film class, the short had a very long life at animation festivals, launching Hertzfeldt into cult status at a young age. In 1998, the short won the Grand Prize Award for "World's Funniest Cartoon" from the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.
The cartoon is a self-parody, told from the point
Lee Kang-sheng (李康生) as Hsiao-kang, a salesman for a commercial ossuary (納骨塔)
- Chen Chao-jung (陳昭榮) as Ah-jung, a street peddler
- Lu Yi-ching (陸弈靜) as a coffee shop owner
Reception.
"Vive L'Amour" won three Golden Horse Awards, for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Sound Effects. It also won the Golden Lion award at the 51st Venice International Film Festival.
On AllMovie, reviewer Jonathan Crow