Le Bal des folles

Paris, 1885. Winter dusk. A dropped glove. A privileged woman, wrongly committed to the La Pitié Salpêtrière asylum, plans an escape. Her only help is a sympathetic nurse, haunted by her own ghosts. A minor key of early Polanski.

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Mélanie Laurent directed Le Bal des folles in 2021. See Mélanie Laurent's full filmography, where to start with Mélanie Laurent, or where to go after you've seen everything by Mélanie Laurent.

Le Bal des folles was released in 2021 (FR original-language production), with a runtime of 122 minutes.