La jouissance des hystériques

The title of the movie is from the book of Lucien Israël: "La Jouissance de l'Hystérique"(French) which means to take pleasure by becoming hysterical. When I saw the movie I thought that the director meant with hysterical only women, but this is not the case for the author of the book. The story of the movie, which has nothing to do with the book, tells us the difficulties of a director to find really good actresses who have solid nerves, can start a revolution and... who can just be good actresses. But the movie speaks about the human ambition to control everything by the viewpoint of a director who makes a movie with insufficient means. The movie is slow but learns us a lot about psychoanalysis and female psychology and about the battle between the opposite sexes. The poster of the movie shows us a little girl sitting on the tomb of the famous French poet Guillaume Apollinaire. This is what the movie is about: the innocence and (female) beauty of youth against the power of human culture and the power you need to achieve something in the real world, and the life and the time that it takes away to achieve something in society. I liked this movie because it is like going on therapy by watching a movie.