The Mad Women's Ball
- Year
- 2021
- Description
- Cast includes Emmanuelle Bercot, Grégoire Bonnet, Lou de Laâge, Mélanie Laurent, and Benjamin Voisin.
Able to speak to the dead, Eugénie Cléry (played by Lou de Laâge) is incarcerated by her family in the Salpêtrière clinic in Paris, where she and the other women undergo constant examinations and brutal 19th-century mental illness treatment regimens devised by Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot (played by Grégoire Bonnet) and participate in a lavish ball open to the public. - Director
- Laurent, Mélanie
- Writer
- Deslandes, Chris; Laurent, Mélanie
- Producer
- Boucaï, Axelle; Goldman, Alain
- Cinematographer
- Karakatsanis, Nicolas
- Editor
- Danché, Anny
- Production Team
- Légende Films and Amazon
- Genre
- Feature Film
Drama - Content Notes
- Explicit sex and nudity
- Source
- Based on the novel Le Bal des folles by Victoria Mas
- Language
- French with English subtitles
Available with dubbed English, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Polish, or Portuguese dialogue - Media Format
- 1 streaming video (121 min.)
- Type
- Color
- Updated
- 04-26-2022
Production Information
Film InformationReviews
Hollywood Reporter, Sept. 12, 2021New York Times, Sept. 16, 2021
RogerEbert.com, Sept. 17, 2021