Our Lucky Hours
Our Lucky Hours
| 20 April 2022 (USA)
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45,000 patients died in French psychiatric hospitals between 1939 and 1945. A single site escaped this carnage: the asylum in Saint-Alban, an isolated village in Lozère. What happened there for it to be an exception? Retracing several decades in the history of this important site of psychiatry, using precious archival films and the accounts of those who worked there, Martine Deyres answers this question and, in doing so, shows how the political courage and poetic audacity that were practised there contributed to changing medicine and society’s perception on madness. Intersecting in the crucible of this movement called “institutional psychotherapy” were members of the Resistance, artists, doctors and philosophers—including Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara and Georges Canguilhem.

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Teddie Blake

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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Taha Avalos

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

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Ortiz

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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Skyler

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

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