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Augustine

  • 20122012
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  • 1h 42m
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6.1/10
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Vincent Lindon and Soko in Augustine (2012)
A look at the relationship between pioneering 19th century French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and his star teenage patient, kitchen maid who is left partially paralyzed after a seizure.
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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 sei... Read allA 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.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.
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1.6K
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  • Director
    • Alice Winocour
  • Writer
    • Alice Winocour
  • Stars
    • Vincent Lindon
    • Stéphan Wojtowicz
    • Soko
  • Director
    • Alice Winocour
  • Writer
    • Alice Winocour
  • Stars
    • Vincent Lindon
    • Stéphan Wojtowicz
    • Soko
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 9User reviews
    • 36Critic reviews
    • 74Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 11 nominations

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    Vincent Lindon and Soko in Augustine (2012)
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    Soko in Augustine (2012)
    Vincent Lindon in Augustine (2012)
    Soko in Augustine (2012)
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    Vincent Lindon
    Vincent Lindon
    • Le professeur Jean-Martin Charcot
    Stéphan Wojtowicz
    Stéphan Wojtowicz
    • Conti
    Soko
    Soko
    • Augustine
    Chiara Mastroianni
    Chiara Mastroianni
    • Constance Charcot
    Olivier Rabourdin
    Olivier Rabourdin
    • Bourneville
    Roxane Duran
    Roxane Duran
    • Rosalie
    Lise Lamétrie
    • L'infirmière principale de la Salpêtrière
    Ange Ruzé
    • Pierre
    Grégory Gadebois
    Grégory Gadebois
    • Un invité au dîner des Charcot
    Valentine Herrenschmidt
    • L'infirmière Marguerite
    Aliénor de Mézamat
    • L'infirmière Louise
    Audrey Bonnet
    Audrey Bonnet
    • Aimée
    Jeanne Cohendy
    • La domestique Mélanie
    Jean-Claude Baudracco
    • Le cuisinier de la Salpêtrière
    Julie Ravix
    • Madame Dumonteux
    Victoire Gonin-Labat
    Victoire Gonin-Labat
    • Une infirmière
    Jacob Vouters
    • Le premier fils Dumonteux
    Damien Bonnard
    Damien Bonnard
    • Le second fils Dumonteux
    • Director
      • Alice Winocour
    • Writer
      • Alice Winocour
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The role of Charcot was originally designed for Benoît Poelvoorde.
    • Soundtracks
      Mina's Photo
      from the motion picture "Bram Stoker's Dracula"

      by Wojciech Kilar

    User reviews9

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    5/10
    Missing many facts
    This is rather a sensationalised and eroticized rendition of filmmaking loosely based on facts.

    Although well acted, well filmed and very intriguing throughout, it nonetheless did not treat the subject material in a way that fully depicted what countless many young women of the day endured: early sexual abuse and it's life-harming effects.

    One of the factual details that is notably absent from Winocour's film is the sexual assaults the young Augustine suffered at the hands of an employer with whom she was placed by her mother at age thirteen. The details of her rape do not get mentioned and neither does her trauma,or the information that the attacks began soon after.

    From the symptoms of her 'illness,' in this film, the causes or triggers for Augustine's episodes often feature in scenes of animal cruelty. The film does not treat her history of sexual abuse and it has Augustine enter the Salpêtrière at age nineteen, while, in fact, she was fourteen when she began her stay. Very much younger. Still a child.

    If the filmmaker had stuck to a factual rendition of how so many girls were sold or traded or sent off to work in situations where they were never protected, never able to protect themselves and where the theme of the day in most of Europe was early sexual abuse of horrific proportions, there may have been a film that explained how generationally women have been exploited, manhandled, marginalised and mistreated almost as point of course.

    A hugely wasted opportunity to make an important film.
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    • eyeintrees
    • Nov 1, 2015

    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 7, 2012 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Ánh Sáng
    • Production companies
      • Dharamsala
      • France 3 Cinéma
      • ARP Sélection
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $107,352
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $13,616
      • May 19, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $262,390
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 42 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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