2011 · comedy · romance
Hysteria
Directed by Tanya Wexler1h 40m2011
Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.
Our read: Hysteria (2011) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
Watching Hysteria tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How Hysteria feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want cheeky Victorian comedy about desire and medical absurdity.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if innuendo-heavy sex comedy feels awkward with company.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Hysteria, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →