Isabelle Carré transposes her personal story into this beautiful film on the mental health of young people

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Invited to lead a workshop in the psychiatry department of the Necker-Enfants Malades hospital in Paris, an actress remembers. In the mid-1980s, she was interned within these walls, battered by a bundle of family neuroses and a devastating heartbreak. Isabelle Carré adapts her book, autobiographical, published in 2018, and manages to transpose into her staging what makes her temperament as an actress: playing on the ambiguity conveyed by her graceful and melancholic presence (eruptions of anger, untimely depression, luminous charm of the timid) through a very simple, very frontal formal approach, where poetic sketches and other suspended moments find all the more their place as they arise without force and come from afar. A very beautiful actress film.

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