Ah! L’Amour

By Miss Cellania in Video Clips on Sep 20, 2008 at 7:10 am

(Atom Films link)


Don Hertzfeldt created Ah, L’Amour in 1995 as an 18-year-old student at the University of California Santa Barabara. It was his first film. Ah, L’Amour has been posted here a couple of times, but the embedded video was always pulled do to licensing rights. Now Atom Films has obtained those rights, so you can enjoy it! Link to Hertzfeld’s site. -Thanks, Katherine!


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  1. manilenio
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 7:57 am

    love is complicated… ;p

  2. ted
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 8:09 am

    “I have money.”

    The best part is where he stops at Big Bertha, then goes on without talking to her. Shows he’s not completely one-sided about the whole love thing.

  3. CheeseDuck
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 8:20 am

    I love L’Amour. It is possibly my favorite Don Hertzfeldt movie.

  4. renderanything
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 10:03 am

    I wish someone would also license “The Meaning of Life”. That one I would love to see as well.

  5. Preach on
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    This is why I can’t stand women. They’re only good for one thing.

  6. Miss Orange
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    At 1:05 he walks by the ugly fat girl. Totally ignores her, then goes on to the next average girl. The big girl could have been the girl of her dreams, but he didn’t give her a chance. That’s why I can’t stand men. “They’re only good for one thing.”

  7. Miss Orange
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    oops, i meant “girl of HIS dreams” haha

  8. JamesB
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    I’ve had days like that.

  9. CheeseDuck
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    Miss Orange, don’t feed the trolls!

  10. mrmuggles
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    The best part is the first “scene” with the hearth!

  11. urth
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    harsh.cant help but think maybe life in america makes people more harsh maybe women get too much objectification or guys are repressed nerds who express neuroses by making anti women anti love anti relationship animations, though it was a good job just an obvious bit of anti love anti …

  12. diogenes
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    there’s nothing wrong with being anti love or anti relationship, if that’s the way you want to be. Not everyone can find (or depends on) happiness from others. I can see why it’s a puzzling perspective for many though.

  13. Danny
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    Too much Mortal Kombat here…

  14. firithlotiel
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    I <3 Don Hertzfeldt…

  15. ted
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    Sure, urth, it’s all the fault of men.

    Miss Orange, did the animation say that the one girl was fat and ugly? Or are you projecting your own impression of beauty on it?

    That’s why I thought it was a good scene: here’s the guy going after the good-looking chicks, and you feel sorry for him. When he shows the “ugly” chick, however, the animator is showing that maybe the stick dude can be just as shallow as the stick chicks he’s trying to score with.

  16. LaNovio
    Sep 20th, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    Fabulous stereotyping of women… spot on. Especially love the violence and gore. Can’t wait to show this (and try to explain it)to the kids.

    NEATO!!!!!!!!

  17. Brian
    Sep 21st, 2008 at 6:41 am

    I think I saw this at Spike and Mikes twisted animation festival years ago.

    …and firithlotiel, it took me a couple of seconds to discover why you are less than three :)

  18. L.C.
    Sep 21st, 2008 at 11:11 am

    Geeze people, its a cartoon. Why must you dissect it and over analyze its remains? It was cute.

  19. Namowal
    Sep 22nd, 2008 at 9:10 am

    That was funny.
    I’m glad I’m not a guy.

  20. -bob-
    Sep 22nd, 2008 at 10:22 am

    Urth is right, though I think misunderstood slightly. He’s not saying something negative against American men OR women. The dating “game” is ridiculous here, for both sides. My guess is that Urth lives outside the US.

  21. cooties
    Sep 22nd, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    This was the first, and until today the only film I’d ever seen of his:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSb-nV8l2QY

    9 minutes long, somewhat loud and not entirely kid-friendly but it IS inventive.

  22. DOJ
    Sep 22nd, 2008 at 5:14 pm

    Hertzfeldt is great

    @Brian, he’s done a lot for The Animation Show

  23. Kiki
    Sep 24th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    Too bad the fat girl didn’t sit on him.


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