Sur l'Adamant (2023)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 109 minuten
Alternative title: On the Adamant
Country:
France / Japan
Directed by: Nicolas Philibert
IMDb score:
6,8 (1.164)
Releasedate: 22 March 2023
Sur l'Adamant plot
The Adamant is a unique day care center. This floating building on the Seine in the heart of Paris welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders and provides the kind of care that binds them in time and space and helps them recover or keep their spirits up. The team that manages the center is doing its best to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry.
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mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
On the banks of the Seine, in the heart of Paris, is a floating building that has been used as a day care center since 2010 where psychiatrists and “clients” can meet in an informal, friendly atmosphere. Professionals and visitors work together in meetings, managing the bar and planning and organizing workshops and movie nights. An unconventional approach to psychiatry that benefits both professionals and visitors. The subject is interesting, but Philibert could have made his points in fifteen minutes. This documentary mainly consists of vague narratives, boring conversations and silences. The most important conclusion is that people with a psychiatric background can be just as boring and annoying as others. Fine!
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De filosoof
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- 2489 messages
- 1700 votes
The documentary provides little information and mainly shows a few psychiatric patients speaking in a kind of clubhouse: the approach is (a bit like Oliver Sacks uses it with his patients with neurological disorders) that it is not so much about the disease and the cure – we hear nothing about, for example, the diagnosis of the patients (although there will certainly be schizophrenics among them because some hear voices) – but it should be about people and their happiness so that the sterile institutional environment is avoided and it becomes more of a community where the patient can flourish as far as possible. It wants to show the poetic side of the psychiatric patient and succeeds in this to a certain extent: the patients are allowed to be creative in all kinds of ways, which produces interesting art and stories, which undoubtedly benefits the patients who like to talk or are good at talking. telling in front of the camera so that as a viewer you not only get something of their world on the Adamant, but also something of their experience.
That's all interesting, although the documentary doesn't go anywhere in terms of story, but the message turns out to be meta, namely the political cry for help that this kind of human psychiatric help would be under pressure.
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Roger Thornhill
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- 6074 messages
- 2478 votes
Fascinating stories and scenes: the man who goes completely crazy at the beginning to a song from Téléphone, the woman who draws a praying mantis, the man who is sure that he can capture the energy of Jim Morrison and his Pam in their last days in Paris, the woman who misses her child, the man who has the idea that Wim Wenders based Paris Texas on him... Perhaps I would have liked to have had a little more information about the design of the boat and the final result of this treatment or approach, but that would have been a completely different film, and perhaps these beautiful psychological portraits would have been reduced to "cases" and dossiers.
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