Every Little Thing

Documentarian Nicolas Philibert and crew take us on another interesting adventure, this time at the La Borde psychiatric clinic where the residents are rehearsing their annual production for friends and family. This time, they are doing the absurdist classic, “Operette,” by Witold Gombrowicz, a play whose dialogue and drama is stranger than almost anything the clinic residents see in their own imaginations. Since Philibert refuses to identify who is who, part of the fun of the film is trying to guess who is a patient and who is a physician at the facility, a task that only grows more complicated as the strange play starts to take form.