A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.
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★★★★★
In reading some of the other reviews, I see people looking for answers to parts of the story that are really 'subplots' of the main story. This is a story of female bonds & friendships - particularly an understanding & friendship between two women who, due to...
★★★★★
So I watched a French movie (with French audio and English subs to try and keep it authentic as much as possible since I do not speak the language) for the first time, ever. And I am left stunned by it. The acting is top-notch and on point always. Since I have...
★★★★★
My dear Geneviève, we are free...
After Oxygen, Mélanie Laurent returns directing and starring in an Amazon original.
As a director, Laurent did a great job showing the cruelty in the treatment of women in asylum back in the days. The "therapies" were nothin...
★★★★★
Lou de Laage is Eugenie, a headstrong woman who is committed to an insane asylum in 1885 France by her wealthy and domineering father. Victor Hugo's funeral opens the film and Eugenie was amongst the large crowd.
The young woman goes into fits and claims to c...
★★★★★
About the 19th century psychiatry treatment of women in le hospitale salphetriere in paris, france. Its a well made jump back to the past, where womens destiny where the mens decision, a fathers decision, a brothers decision or a husbands decision, if you were...
