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Augustine

2012

Alice Winocour

Vincent Lindon, Soko, Chiara Mastroianni, Olivier Rabourdin ...

5.9

133

Drama. Romance Parisw, winter 1885. At eh Pitié Salpêtrière hospital, Professor Charcot is studying a mysterious disease: hysteria. 19 years old Agustine becomes his favorite guinea pig, the star of his demonstrations of hypnosis. But gradually she becomes and object of desire for him.

	Media	Author	Review
		Leslie Felperin Variety	"Anchored by two intense perfs (...), a musician who also composed the pic’s growling, atmospheric score, this period drama offers a coolly febrile study of madness, Victorian sexual politics and power"
		Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter	"This is a handsomely-mounted period picture which transcends the stuffiness of costume-drama with sufficient aplomb"
		Eric Hynes Time Out	"Plays like a gothic prequel to David Cronenberg's 'A Dangerous Method', one in which human flesh is viewed as both horrific and erotic terrain (...) rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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