Made the same year as Jeanne Dielman, the film stars Delphine Seyrig as the titular character. Aloise creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.

Friday’s screening introduced by Grace An, Professor of French & Cinema & Media Oberlin College author of Disobedient Muse: The Feminism and Filmmaking of Delphine Seyrig. University of California Press (series: Feminist Media Histories), 2027;  Editor, Imaginaries: Films, Fictions, and Other Representations of French-Speaking Worlds.