La Moindre Des Choses (1997)
Directed by Nicolas Philibert
Genres - Theater, Culture & Society |
Sub-Genres - Biography, Psychology, Sociology |
Run Time - 104 min. |
Countries - France |
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Synopsis by Bhob Stewart
This French documentary travels to the Loire Valley of France to go behind the gates of La Borde, a progressive French psychiatric clinic, where emotionally disturbed inmates stage an annual musical production. With original music and songs, the play is the Polish absurdist comedy, Operetta by Witold Gombrowicz. Shown at the 1997 Vancouver Film Festival.
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asylum [mental hospital], behind-the-scenes, innovation, loneliness, mental-illness, observations, play [drama], psychiatry, self-identity