If you loved Valmont, try L'Amour fou

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. L'Amour fou has roughly 7.8× fewer votes than Valmont — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theyboth carry the cerebral mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Valmont, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What L'Amour fou is

Rivette does marriage-as-theater, then theater-as-marriage. A couple's already strained relationship frays further as they rehearse a production of Andromaque. The production is experimental, the marriage less so, maybe.

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