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.