![]() This is especially true of a very macabre scene in which the hospital’s director, Dr Charcot (Grégoire Bonnet), hypnotises Louise as part of a lecture attended by all these other gentlemen and then coaxes her through a series of movements which begin to look more and more sexual. There is something very Sadeian, or perhaps rather Foucauldian, about this ball and the various spectacles of rational control and madness-suppression that Laurent contrives in her movie. By using her superpower to divine the private agonies of the jailer-nurses, Eugénie begins to develop a plan to escape from the hospital, on the evening of its annual ball, which the patients are permitted to attend in fancy dress as a special treat. So who are the mad people here? The ingenuity of the tale resides in the fact that Eugénie’s claim to speak with the dead – the one thing which a 21st-century observer would indeed call irrational – is literally true. ![]()
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