Every Little Thing
Capsule by Jonathan Rosenbaum
From the Chicago Reader

In the summer of 1995, French documentarist Nicolas Philibert shot the rehearsals for an outdoor performance of Witold Gombrowicz's Operetta at a psychiatric clinic in La Bord; the film that resulted was released the following year. As in Philibert's other documentaries, his uncoercive respect for the participants registers almost immediately; he wants us to get to know these performers as people rather than as patients, even though the mood is periodically one of amiable chaos. A couple of the most interesting moments arise when patients address the filmmaker directly; the second time this happens, he's identified as a representative of "society"--meaning us. In French with subtitles. 104 min.

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