On the Adamant

Name: On the Adamant
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 29, 2024
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Charafdine Bouzaraa, Érik Ménard, François Gozlan, Jean-Paul Hazan, Linda De Zitter

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: March 29, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Charafdine Bouzaraa, Érik Ménard, François Gozlan, Jean-Paul Hazan, Linda De Zitter, Mamadi Barri, Pauline Hertz, Romain Bernardin, Sabine Berlière, Walid Benziane

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Winner of the Golden Bear at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Summary: The Adamant is a one-of-a-kind place: a floating refuge on the Seine River in the heart of Paris that offers day programs for adults with mental illnesses. Its attendees come from across the city and are offered care that grounds them in time and space, helping them achieve recovery and stability. Through a blend of therapy, education, andThe Adamant is a one-of-a-kind place: a floating refuge on the Seine River in the heart of Paris that offers day programs for adults with mental illnesses. Its attendees come from across the city and are offered care that grounds them in time and space, helping them achieve recovery and stability. Through a blend of therapy, education, and culture rooted in music and the arts, the Adamant offers a hopeful vision of what a humanistic approach to mental health care could look like. The community on the boat is intentionally created so that both the staff and the people receiving care are treated with the same respect and dignity. Their meetings and conversations reveal the camaraderie and collective humanity of a group of people whose similarities far outweigh their differences.… Expand

Director: Nicolas Philibert

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 109 min

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Sumner Forbes

May 6, 2024

In a perfect world, Philibert’s film will serve as a wake-up call for reconfiguring how we approach the treatment of mental illness on a global level. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Mar 29, 2024

This is a soft-spoken but ultimately powerful work that makes the case for the importance of empathy in treating those with mental illnesses, and makes you hope that programs like the one depicted here will one day become the norm. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Feb 25, 2023

On the Adamant is most moving when it stands back, letting its most disenfranchised subjects talk, or shout, or sing. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Nov 6, 2023

The film’s observational approach means that little context is provided for the techniques used here, or for the lives and circumstances of the daily visitors. But the warm, non-judgmental embrace of Philibert’s approach is profoundly affecting. Read full review

The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Dec 20, 2023

Where the film succeeds in drawing you into all that life, however, it does so in a patchwork of moments that never quite suggest a whole. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Mar 26, 2024

Philibert’s fly-on-the-wall documentary is all the more effective because the director refuses to pretend that he isn’t visible — not in this place where people come to be seen, and not merely looked at. Read full review

David Robb

Mar 1, 2023

Unwilling to risk subjectivity or authorial input, and also lacking in the forensic detail that might have provided a more in-depth analysis of the Centre de jour l’Adamant and its functioning, On the Adamant ultimately feels half-formed. Read full review

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