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Asylum
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The feature documentary, fiImed inside the London haven of psychiatrist R.D. Laing
ln 1971, filmmaker Peter Robinson and a smaII crew entered a world of anarchic madness and heaIing compassion unIike any other. The resuIting fiIm Asylum, records their seven week stay in radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing's controversiaI Archway Community - a London Row-house where inmates literalIy run the asylum. Laing's conviction that schizophrenics can onIy heal their shattered "self" where they're free and yet are heId responsibIe for their actions, chaIIenged patients, doctors, and in AsyIum's incredibIe document, the filmmakers, to Iive communally and peacefully.
"l think it's possibIe to get lost here," offers one of the uneasy medical voIunteers pIunged into Archway's tribaI society. Fiercely intelIectual David demands attention by engaging anyone and everyone in an unending and increasingIy menacing iIlogicaI discourse. Consumed by the emotional need that has claimed her sanity, beautiful, lost JuIia regresses to infancy. ln one astonishing scene, a patient's father bIitheIy expIains, that he has hired a girI to date his nearly catatonic son. As Archway's residents are pushed to the point of confrontation by David's belligerence, these and other vivid real Iife characters are "expIored but not expIoited by this enterprising but humanIy decent film."
A documentary treasure built from truthfuI moments of astonishing tension and grace, Asylum takes on a gripping narrative strength usualIy onIy seen in fiction. Hailed as "beautifully done" by the ViIlage voice at the time of it's 1972 reIease, AsyIum has since become "a model of cinema Verite." |
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