Camion

TIFF Day 7: Augustine | The Bright Day | Camion | The Color of the Chameleon | Do Not Disturb | Dreams for Sale | Hannah Arendt | John Dies at the End | A Liar’s Autobiography | 7 Boxes

Augustine (Alice Winocour, France)—Discovery By Adam Nayman Less Prestige-ious than David Cronenberg’s recent period-piece account of psychoanalytic one-upsmanship, the pre-Freudian drama Augustine actually gets down and dirty with its (diagnosed) hysterical female patient: a 19-year-old maid whose spectacular seizure suffered while ladling out supper to her employers gets her packed off to a sanatorium. Once…
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