Crazy Love (1987)
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If you like the title of this Belgian production, you'll love its source, a story by Charles Bukowski titled The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, Calif. Actually the film draws material from three different Bukowski stories to outline three crucial stages in a man's life. The hero begins as a… More If you like the title of this Belgian production, you'll love its source, a story by Charles Bukowski titled The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, Calif. Actually the film draws material from three different Bukowski stories to outline three crucial stages in a man's life. The hero begins as a 12-year old naif, "develops" into a miserable pimply adolescent who yearns for the girls who laugh in his face, and "matures" into an alcoholic, drug-addicted bum with a predilection for necrophilia. Amazingly, the material is handled with subtlety and sensitivity--the trick is to get through the film's first painful moments. The episodic nature of Love is a Dog From Hell is due to the fact that the film began as a 30-minute short subject, then was expanded into a feature when a distributor evinced interest. For its grindhouse playoffs, Love is a Dog From Hell was retitled Crazy Love. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Dominique Deruddere
- Written By
- Charles Bukowski, Dominique Deruddere, Marc Didden
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 1, 1987 Wide
- On DVD
- Oct 26, 2004
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Cast
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Josse De Pauw
as Harry Voss
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Michaël Pas
as Stan
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Gene Bervoets
as Jeff
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Amid Chakir
as Bill
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Florence Beliard
as The Princess
- Carmela Locantore
- An Van Essche
- Doriane Moretus
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Geert Hunaerts
as Voss child
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Karen van Parijs
as Harry's Mother
