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THE MAD WOMEN’S BALL

French actress Melanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds) demonstrates her considerable prowess as a director with this fifth feature – a beautiful, gripping and devastating indictment of the treatment of “hysterical” women in late 19th-century Paris.

Young gentlewoman Eugene Clery (a stunning performance by the luminous Lou de Laage) is committed to the asylum of Pitie-Salpetriere after