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Synopsis: A look at the relationship between pioneering 19th century French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and his star teenage patient, a kitchen maid who is left partially paralyzed after a seizure.
Genre: Drama, History
Director(s): Alice Winocour
Production: Music Box Films
  4 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
NOT RATED
Year:
2012
102 min
£68,783
Website
70 Views


If all goes well,

the Academy is next.

I hope I'm not

wrong about you.

Holy Guardian Angel,

make him cure me.

Please, Holy Guardian Angel,

I'm begging you.

Open my eye,

make everything well.

Holy Guardian Angel,

Archangel Gabriel, all of you,

Holy Angel and Archangel...

protect me.

Help me.

Give me strength.

Will she be naked?

Mr. Charcot says being naked

with a feather hat is absurd.

What are you waiting for?

Go ahead.

Friends, thank you for coming.

Today's patient is

named Augustine.

Augustine is nineteen.

She's had attacks for months

and presents every symptom

of what we call

"ovarian hysteria. "

Notice the paralysis

of the right eye?

An excellent example

of the hysterical wink.

Permanent paralysis.

The symptoms have

been visible for days,

but we've found

no organic lesion.

As with all hysterics,

this patient defies

the laws of anatomy.

We'll put her under hypnosis.

Via hypnosis, we'll reproduce

the attack in its natural state.

To identify it, to observe it,

and to classify

the symptoms.

Mr. Verdan here

will take pictures.

Mr. Bourneville...

you may hypnotize her.

Look at the mirror.

Look at the light in it.

Follow it.

Very good.

Continue.

Eye on it.

Keep your eye on it.

Now.

Do you know where you are?

I don't know.

Know the Salptrire?

It's where they treat me.

Know that man?

You do know me?

You're Mr. Charcot.

The feather.

See her out.

Charcot has a new patient.

Yes, my husband told me.

Were you there?

I never miss them

but I was away.

Too bad.

It was particularly fascinating.

- See Humbert's piece?

- About her?

Likens her to Sarah Bernhard.

- Who?

- Your husband's new patient.

What an anatomy!

Indeed.

The tale she tells

is not for children.

Who?

Your new protg.

You mean patient.

This isn't a circus.

You trigger her attacks,

don't you?

I trigger attacks

to study symptoms.

Nothing more.

You really think

I can create diseases?

Ever seen 17th-century

prints of witches?

- Not the point.

- Answer.

The prints show exactly

what we see at the hospital.

Girls burned at the stake

for ages were merely ill.

There's one thing I want.

To understand.

Where does this

illness come from?

I claim it starts in the brain.

A lesion that left no trace.

It's incurable?

An emotional or physical shock

may suffice to make the patient well.

If it's in the brain,

why is their delirium

always sexual?

Why is it always so?

It's not part of the disease.

It's just delirium.

Enough about medicine today.

Serge, tell your adventures.

Jean says you're

climbing Mont Blanc.

It's not dangerous?

The risk doesn't scare you?

Not coming to bed?

Shortly.

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Alice Winocour

Alice Winocour (born 13 January 1976) is a French screenwriter and director. more…

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