On February 18, 1976, La Devinière, a place of institutional psychotherapy, opened its doors to 19 children deemed incurable refused by all. Neither common sense, nor psychiatry, nor pedagogy could admit them, recognize them.
Direction
Dervaux observes without extracting pain for spectacle.
Editing
Refuses easy redemption arcs—time moves messily here.
Director
Benoît Dervaux
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
La Devinière emerged from France's anti-psychiatry movement, influenced by Félix Guattari's work at La Borde clinic—radical institutional experiments rarely documented this intimately.
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