Nise: The Heart of Madness
- sombre
- measured
- redemptive
- tender
Sombre, measured, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.
Our read · Nise: The Heart of Madness (2016) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · music · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Nise
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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