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Augustine
Directed by
Alice Winocour
Not Rated
2012
1h 41m
Drama
,
History
,
and more
6.1
75%
52%
5.2
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Set in Belle Époque France, the story follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis, as she transitions from object of study to object of desire.
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Cast of Augustine
Soko
Augustine
Vincent Lindon
Charcot
Chiara Mastroianni
Constance
Roxane Duran
Rosalie
Olivier Rabourdin
Bourneville
Lise Lamétrie
Head nurse of the Salpêtrière
Ange Ruzé
Pierre
Stéphan Wojtowicz
Conti
Grégory Gadebois
Guest at the Charcots’ dinner
Valentine Herrenschmidt
Nurse Marguerite
Aliénor de Mézamat
Nurse Louise
Audrey Bonnet
Aimée
Jeanne Cohendy
Servant Mélanie
Jean-Claude Baudracco
Cook of the Salpêtrière
Julie Ravix
Madame Dumonteux
Victoire Gonin-Labat
Nurse
Jacob Vouters
First son Dumonteux
Damien Bonnard
Second son Dumonteux
Michel Peteau
Guest of the Dumonteux
Cécile Morel
Guest of the Dumonteux
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Augustine Ratings & Reviews
jwco63
July 15, 2025
I would've gave this movie 5 full stars just for the amazing performance that poor girl went through during this movie but over all it was just a pretty good movie
Film Comment Magazine
David Zuckerman
Trading historical detail for atmospheric sensuality doesn't do this story justice.
Detroit News
Tom Long
By the film's end, it's clear what Augustine is running from, but it's hard to grasp where she was in the first place.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
That the film raises interesting questions might be good enough, except that, while the movie goes about denying us information we want, it gives us details we don't need. "Augustine" churns slowly and doesn't make for compelling viewing.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
French physician Jean-Martin Charcot hypnotized, photographed and exhibited a hysteric, as does French director Alice Winocour for a clinical love story and empowerment tale.
Chicago Sun-Times
Godfrey Cheshire
Ultimately, while this character-based drama proves consistently engrossing, it leaves various pertinent and fascinating issues frustratingly unexplored.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
The psychosexual drama plays out beneath the surface -- the movie is so understated it sometimes feels inert.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Fiercely yet faithfully imagined by... Alice Winocur, [the film] is not exclusively a mystery. It's also part love story, part horror story, as well as a parable of gender, power and the enduring enigma that is the mind-body connection.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Winocour does not reduce her characters to caricatures, but depicts them as unwitting actors in the tragedy of a pathological society.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The writer-director Alice Winocour creates a kind of subdued excitement of discovery.
Newsday
John Anderson
The hysterics contained in Alice Winocour's "Augustine" -- and "hysteria" is what it's about -- can't obscure the understated, smoldering subtext of what is a sometimes playfully smart and irony-laden story.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Vague conjurings of mood take the place of insight, sentiment takes the place of complexity, and a clumsy and superficial attention to the rigid script keeps the movie from coming to life.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
Winocour skillfully films Augustine being exhibited for other doctors in several disturbingly erotic scenes, but elsewhere Soko's stolid, one-note demeanor takes a toll.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Ms. Winocour is not inclined to turn "Augustine" into a neatly moralized fable of a predator and his victim. Rather, the film is what might be called a melodrama of transference ...
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Visually, the film conjures the past with shadowy interiors and harsh light. Winocour, who also scripted, often makes her points without words.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
[A] somber, intelligent period drama ...
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Its world is small but convincing.
Village Voice
Ernest Hardy
The film is something of a paradox, simultaneously passionate and dispassionate, its ending tethered to both bruised triumph and a sense of things falling apart.
Slant Magazine
Tomas Hachard
Alice Winocour's take on this true story carries the superficial trappings of a period drama, but its perspective is entirely contemporary.
Variety
Leslie Felperin
Anchored by two intense, intertwined perfs by veteran Vincent Lindon and relative newcomer Soko, this period drama offers a coolly febrile study of madness, Victorian sexual politics and power.
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