A staged account of what appears to be a conversation between writer/director Marguerite Duras and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan: was Lol V. Stein, Duras’s famous character, truly mad? Would she have been Lacan’s ideal patient? But as Duras speaks, Lacan doesn’t listen. In the familiar dynamic of men diagnosing women’s madness without hearing them, a female filmmaker uncovers early 20th-century photographic and film archives of women labeled as hysterics and begins to reflect on how cinema itself has played a role in forging the link between women and madness. (C.A.)

This film is a part of PGM 4 and will be screened alongside The Reign of Antoine, Dry, One more day and Blue Heart.