The Mad Women's Ball (2021)
Genre : Thriller, Drama, History
Runtime : 2H 2M
Director : Mélanie Laurent
Writer : Mélanie Laurent
Synopsis
Eugenie has a unique gift: she hears and sees the dead. When her family discovers her secret, at the end of the 19th century, she is taken by her father and brother to the neurological clinic at La Pitié Salpêtrière with no possibility of escaping her fate. Her destiny becomes entwined with that of Geneviève, a nurse at the hospital.
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