La moindre des choses

Mar 5 1997 Not Rated 1h 45m
Documentary, Music

In the summer of 1995, as every year, the patients and staff of "La Borde" psychiatric clinic rehearse their summer play for a performance on August 15th. The film records the ups and downs of the venture as rehearsals go by. Yet, it also delicately captures the day-to-day existence, the seemingly insignificant details, the loneliness and the fatigue but also the collective joy and the close attention that all these people pay to each other.

Plot

Documentary. The tranquil woods of the Loire Valley embrace the La Borde psychiatric clinic, an asylum in the truest sense of the word, where patients find sanctuary and repose. Patients and staff work together in rehearsals and preparations for their annual summer play. This year, they perform the modernist, absurdist classic, "Operette," by Witold Gombrowicz, whose dialogue is more nonsensical than that of the patients themselves.

Written by

Nicolas Philibert

Directed by

Nicolas Philibert

Cast

N/A

Production Countries

France

Languages

Français

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
222
Average Rating
7.6 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA