2023-04-19 05:19:35
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Prize-winning in Berlin, the documentary filmmaker films this psychiatric day center installed on a barge in Paris and draws a multitude of portraits where patients and therapists are treated equally, until erasing the prejudices of standards.
It starts with an agenda, but the order is immediately disrupted. While a member of the care team at theAdamant kindly insists that the traditional Monday morning meeting obey a certain protocol, a patient, seated next to her, would like to know the name of the newcomer right away. From the outset, our attention and our empathy go towards her: indeed, the order is absurd, why wait to ask the young man his first name, if we want to know it now. If she finally bends to the rule, it is with a knowing smile, for herself, with a sense of humor which she will not depart from therefollowing.
By filming this one-of-a-kind day center – in the heart of Paris, it is located on a barge – Nicolas Philibert returns to a known country, that of psychiatric care. In the least of it (1997), he had filmed The edge, the clinic founded by the psychoanalyst Jean Oury in the 1950s, according to the principles of antipsychiatry. Here, the ambition is more modest but the curiosity has remained the same: by setting out to meet the visitors of this motionless boat, regular passengers or occasional guests, Nicolas Philibert films anxieties and amazements, terrors
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