Nicolas Philibert – Sur l’Adamant AKA On The Adamant (2023)
The Adamant is a unique psychiatric care centre, remarkable for its floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental health disorders, offering them care that orients them in time and space, helping them to recover or just keep up their spirits. The team running the centre tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can.
Nicolas Philibert’s verité-style documentary (a style he has perfected over his 50-year career) invites us to board this unique facility and meet the patients and caregivers who bring it to life every day.
Winner- Golden Bear- Berlin International Film Festival 2023
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English
Great documentary which reminds me a bit of Wiseman. I missed it in the theater unfortunately but later watched it online VOD and it caught my attention from the beginning with the scene of a patient singing an intense Téléphone cover straight from the heart. There are no interviews with psychiatrists or nurses, you do see them interact with patients but other than that the camera just portrays several of the regulars there. Remarkable characters like Francoise, the son of a director actually, the quirky Muriel, the earnest Marc who sings a beautiful chanson, Frederic the poet who’s life’s mission is to find an answer as to why he (and his fellow patients) suffers, Patrick the guitar player or Catherine the dancer who pleads to be allowed to offer her own dance classes at the end.
L’Adamant is an anomaly in the French psychiatric landscape and patients & staff together are fighting to continue their treatment concept based on mutual respect and participation of patients while the docu poses the question how long such concepts can survive in the current cost-driven aka value-based French healthcare system. Subtitles are lacking a bit which is unfortunate because it does matter when they express themselves.
Thanks for posting this