title: Mad Love (2015 film)
text: # 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.
  
  