When Victor Hugo was laid to rest in June of 1885, 40,000 people slept on the streets of Paris in order to catch a glimpse of his casket. Mélanie Laurent’s “The Mad Women’s Ball,” adapted from the ...

Mélanie Laurent is probably still best known to American filmgoers for her literal barn-burner of a performance in “Inglorious Basterds,” but on the global stage, she’s a filmmaking force, premiering ...

It’s a tale as old as time: A woman won’t conform to societal norms, traditional notions of femininity or what’s expected of her, and is dismissed as diseased. She’s considered hysterical. And, as ...

‘The Mad Women’s Ball’ is the chilling tale of a young woman committed to an asylum because her family will no longer tolerate her eccentricities. A scene from 'The Mad Women's Ball' courtesy of TIFF ...

Mélanie Laurent directs and stars in this French thriller about a woman unjustly institutionalized by her family. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic One pushed her husband into the Seine during a ...