RECOMMENDED Alice Winocour’s sweetly fevered Belle Époque based-on-fact sexual-coming-of-age tale “Augustine” matches a nineteen-year-old kitchen maid with seizures (Soko) with a neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot (Vincent Lindon) who grows fixated with the physical pleasure that accompanies the sensuous young woman’s “hysteria.” Augustine is readily hypnotized, leading to public demonstrations of her fantastic fits as Charcot works [...]
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