The Mad Women's Ball

Amazon Prime Video | Release Date (Streaming): September 17, 2021

5.5	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Ratings

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JLuis_001Oct 18, 2021

''Eugéne, what's happening?
Don't you see, Louise?
It's them You're what's happening to her. It's you! You're doing it! You're driving her mad!'' ''Shut her up.'' ''Oh, yes. Shut me up, doctor! Go on, shut me up! Because I know everything!''Eugéne, what's happening?
Don't you see, Louise?
It's them
You're what's happening to her.
It's you!
You're doing it!
You're driving her mad!''

''Shut her up.''

''Oh, yes.
Shut me up, doctor!
Go on, shut me up!
Because I know everything!
I can tell you everything!
What you're doing to us... ''

In my opinion, this film is trying to shed a light on the way women were treated in the face of the null understanding of mental illness in the 19th century.
Adding to the fact that institutionalizing them was something that was weaponized against them. Against ''difficult'' women.

That's very good, you can certainly see the idea that this film has in mind to portray a certain female empowerment, but it surprises me that with so many women involved and even with a female director, the film fails to give it an approach that goes beyond the cruelty to which they were subjected.

There's no depth. The events are simply reactionary, and even with the decent performances, there's barely anything more useful.
The hasty resolution of its climax is further evidence of this.

Perhaps this film will increase Mélanie Laurent's credits as a filmmaker, but she was far from providing a real stage for her criticism and subject matter.… Expand

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Mauro_LanariOct 14, 2021

(Mauro Lanari)
Female version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (Forman 1975), it's an impeccable attack on scientism, but spiritualism too would require new explanatory theories that Mélanie Laurent couldn't care less.

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