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A Summer's Tale
Why this pick
Shared genres: Comedy.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2011 1h 40m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Hysteria
Comedy
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Set at the end of 1880, the film depicts the invention of the Vibrator (sex toy). Joseph Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) is a young physician who has difficulty with his occupation due to constant arguments over modern medicine. He gets a job assisting Dr. Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce), whose practice specializes in the treatment of "hysteria", a popular diagnosis for women of that time. Medical practitioners like Dr. Dalrymple tried to manage hysteria by massaging the genital area, decently covered under a curtain, to elicit "paroxysmal convulsions", without recognizing that they were inducing orgasms. Granville meets Dr. Dalrymple's daughters, Emily (Felicity Jones), and her older sister Charlotte (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a suffragette who runs a settlement movement in a poor section of London.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Hugh Dancy
Dr. Mortimer Granville
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Charlotte Dalrymple
Felicity Jones
Emily Dalrymple
Jonathan Pryce
Dr. Robert Dalrymple
Rupert Everett
as Lord Edmund St. John-Smythe
Georgie Glen
Mrs. Parsons
Anna Chancellor
Mrs. Bellamy
Sheridan Smith
Molly the Lolly