Aloïse is a 1975 French drama film directed by Liliane de Kermadec. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.
Tim Palmer has written about this film in his article, "Enraged to Live: Reviving Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse," in French Screen Studies.
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Plot
The unsuccessful Swiss artist Aloïse Corbaz finds work at the court of the German emperor and gets infatuated. Showing frank symptoms of insanity she is hospitalised.
Cast
Isabelle Huppert - Aloïse jeune / Aloïse as a child
Delphine Seyrig - Aloïse adulte / Aloïse as an adult
Marc Eyraud - Le père d'Aloïse / Aloïse's father
Michael Lonsdale - Le médecin directeur / The second doctor
Valérie Schoeller - Élise jeune / Élise as a child
Monique Lejeune - Élise adulte / Élise as an adult
Julien Guiomar - Le directeur de théâtre
Roger Blin - Le professeur de chant / The singing teacher
Jacques Debary - the old director
Roland Dubillard - the teacher
Jacques Weber -the engineer
Nita Klein - the head nurse
Hans Verner - the chaplain
Alice Reichen - 'la microphonée'
François Chatelet - the priest
Fernand Guiot - the priest in the asylum