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Mitra

2018 · 83 min

A quiet, cerebral hybrid of documentary and staged opera that asks you to sit with confinement, correspondence and the slow work of making art from pain.

Directed by
Jorge Léon
Genres
Drama, Documentary
Starring
Lola Felouzis, Mitra Kadivar, Claron McFadden
Overview
Winter 2012 - Committed against her will in a psychiatric hospital in Tehran, Iranian psychoanalyst Mitra Kadivar begins a correspondence by email with Jacques-Alain Miller, founder of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. Summer 2017 - An artistic team creates an opera inspired by these exchanges while absorbing the reality of the Montperrin psychiatric hospital in Aix-en-Provence.

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Directed by
Jorge Léon
Genres
Drama, Documentary
Starring
Lola Felouzis, Mitra Kadivar, Claron McFadden
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • madness
  • art
  • freedom
  • power
Places
  • hospital
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity8
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, documentary
Directed by
Jorge Léon
Written by
Jorge Léon
Starring
Lola Felouzis, Mitra Kadivar, Claron McFadden, Jacques-Alain Miller, Eva Reiter
Runtime
83 min
Country
Belgium, France
Languages
French

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