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The Mad Women's Ball

Original title: Le bal des folles
  • 20212021
  • 2h 2m
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6.6/10
3.5K
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Mélanie Laurent and Lou de Laâge in The Mad Women's Ball (2021)
The Mad Women's Ball tells the story of Eugénie, a radiant and passionate young woman who is at odds with her bourgeois milieu in the late 19th century. When Eugénie's family learn that she communicates with spirits, they decide to have her committed...
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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.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.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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    • Mélanie Laurent
  • Writers
    • Julien Decoin(collaborating writer)
    • Christophe Deslandes(co-writer)
    • Mélanie Laurent
  • Stars
    • Lou de Laâge
    • Mélanie Laurent
    • Emmanuelle Bercot
    • Mélanie Laurent
  • Writers
    • Julien Decoin(collaborating writer)
    • Christophe Deslandes(co-writer)
    • Mélanie Laurent
  • Stars
    • Lou de Laâge
    • Mélanie Laurent
    • Emmanuelle Bercot
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    • 22User reviews
    • 38Critic reviews
    • 72Metascore
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    Mélanie Laurent and Lou de Laâge in The Mad Women's Ball (2021)
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    Lou de Laâge
    Lou de Laâge
    • Eugénie Cléry
    Mélanie Laurent
    Mélanie Laurent
    • Geneviève Gleizes
    Emmanuelle Bercot
    Emmanuelle Bercot
    • Jeanne
    Benjamin Voisin
    Benjamin Voisin
    • Théophile Cléry
    Cédric Kahn
    Cédric Kahn
    • François Cléry
    Lomane de Dietrich
    Lomane de Dietrich
    • Louise
    Christophe Montenez
    Christophe Montenez
    • Jules
    • (as Christophe Montenez de la Comédie Française)
    Coralie Russier
    Coralie Russier
    • Camille
    Alice Barnole
    Alice Barnole
    • Henriette
    Lauréna Thellier
    Lauréna Thellier
    • Marguerite
    Martine Schambacher
    Martine Schambacher
    • Thérèse
    Martine Chevallier
    Martine Chevallier
    • Grand-mère Cléry
    André Marcon
    André Marcon
    • Dr. Gleizes
    Valérie Stroh
    Valérie Stroh
    • Mme Cléry
    Grégoire Bonnet
    Grégoire Bonnet
    • Jean-Martin Charcot
    Pierre-Antoine Deborde
    Pierre-Antoine Deborde
    • Gilles de la Tourette
    Morgan Perez
    Morgan Perez
    • Dr. Babinsky
    Pierre Renverseau
    Pierre Renverseau
    • Médecin gynécologue
      • Mélanie Laurent
    • Writers
      • Julien Decoin(collaborating writer)
      • Christophe Deslandes(co-writer)
      • Mélanie Laurent
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      Melanie Laurent directed this film as well as starred in it. This is Melanie Laurent's fifth time directing a film.

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    8/10
    a classic nouvelle...
    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 apart from the common term of normality, they could put you in a house for madwomen with a blink of an eye.

    Acting is superb, though the story might feel a bit shallow and it-ified, where the caracter build is purely towards the main caracter, i feel far more shouldve been spent on the copatients and doctors, who many of them where real life caracters..

    staging of the sets are impecable, youe drawn into a miljoe of darkness and madness, the musical score that contains lots of deep cello tones do enhance the tragedy of them lost soles in the socalled human care business, thank god things have cchanged to the better, but still humanity has a giant leap to take to make psychiatric care and medicine perfect.

    Its a french edition of the typical dickensian british take on the mental ill a good take thinks the grumpy old man, but not perfect.
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      • September 17, 2021 (United States)
      • France
      • French
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      • Légende Films
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    • 2 hours 2 minutes
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