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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n| 2021\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 122′\u00a0 – Drama Actors Lou de La\u00e2ge and\u00a0M\u00e9lanie Laurent\u00a0become veritable doppelgangers in Laurent\u2019s haunting feminist chronicle of the late 19th century horrors administered on women in the name of science. Adapted from Victoria Mas\u2019 novel\u00a0Le Bal des folles,\u00a0the film\u2019s two-pronged narrative follows Eugenie (de La\u00e2ge), a young woman whose father has her committed to the Piti\u00e9-Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re mental asylum because she\u2019s able to communicate with the dead, and Genevi\u00e8ve (Laurent), the clinical head nurse at the hospital during the reign of distinguished neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d treatments. Their fates gradually intertwine, as two women \u2014 equally impotent, equally trapped \u2014 in a patriarchal system in which exploitation, cruelty and sexual abuse run rampant throughout that highly respected institution.<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE MAD WOMEN’S BALL | 2021\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 122′\u00a0 – Drama Written by:\u00a0M\u00e9lanie Laurent, Christophe Deslandes, Julien Decoin. Directed by:\u00a0M\u00e9lanie Laurent. Starring:\u00a0Lou de La\u00e2ge, M\u00e9lanie Laurent,\u00a0C\u00e9sar Domboy,\u00a0Benjamin Voisin, Emmanuelle Bercot, C\u00e9dric Kahn, Gr\u00e9goire Bonnet, Coralie Russier, Andr\u00e9 Marcon. US Premiere COLCOA 2021. In French with English subtitles. An\u00a0Amazon Prime release. | Actors Lou de La\u00e2ge and\u00a0M\u00e9lanie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,11,43,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-drama","category-history","category-women-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18012,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14945\/revisions\/18012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span><\/span>Written by:\u00a0M\u00e9lanie Laurent, Christophe Deslandes, Julien Decoin.
\nDirected by:\u00a0M\u00e9lanie Laurent.
\nStarring:\u00a0Lou de La\u00e2ge, M\u00e9lanie Laurent,\u00a0C\u00e9sar Domboy,\u00a0Benjamin Voisin, Emmanuelle Bercot, C\u00e9dric Kahn, Gr\u00e9goire Bonnet, Coralie Russier, Andr\u00e9 Marcon.
\nUS Premiere COLCOA 2021<\/strong>.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nAn\u00a0Amazon Prime release. |<\/span><\/p>\n
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