THE MAD WOMENS BALL QA, TIFF 2021

The team behind THE MAD WOMEN S BALL in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. The latest from writerdirectoractor Mélanie Laurent is a chilling tale of spectral visions and institutional abuse set in 19thcentury France. The 46th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 9 to 18, 2021. For more, visit In The Mad Womens Ball, actordirector Mélanie Laurent delivers a searing yet sensitive portrait of women enmeshed in a medical system that both misunderstands and fears them. The setting is late 19thcentury France and the birth of psychiatry, but the resonances couldnt be more contemporary. Eugénie Cléry (Lou de Laâge) is a young woman with a free spirit, an independent mind, and a quick tongue qualities her father will not tolerate. Eugénie also has spectral encounters that leave her staring into space and gasping for breath. She is visited by the spirits of the