Aloïse

Drama · 1976

The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.

Starring

Jean Penzer, Delphine Seyrig, Marc Eyraud, Claudine Merlin, Michael Lonsdale, André Téchiné, Isabelle Huppert, Paul Vecchiali, Liliane de Kermadec, Jacques Weber

Director

Liliane de Kermadec

Producer

Alain Dahan