Amour Fou: Valentine’s Day at Metrograph

The phrase comes to us from the French, and the Surrealists and their heirs in particular have celebrated it—André Breton even penned a book titled L’Amour fou, published in 1937—but the idea of mad, impossible, indestructible passion, like cinema, is one that knows no national bounds. For Valentine’s Day, join us for a quartet of carnal, combustible films—by P.T. Anderson, Gus Van Sant, Leos Carax, and Andrzej Żuławski—that plunge headlong into the delirium of absolute gut-gnawing ardor, movies brimming to bursting with moments of what Breton called “convulsive beauty”… as well as the pained convulsions of those suffering the wounds of that little sadist Cupid’s arrows.