Shock Treatment (1973 film)

Shock Treatment
Directed by Alain Jessua
Produced by Raymond Danon
Jacques Dorfmann
Written by Alain Jessua
Roger Curel
Starring Annie Girardot
Alain Delon
Music by Alain Jessua
René Koering
Cinematography Jacques Robin
Edited by Hélène Plemiannikov
Release dates
  • 18 January 1973 (1973-01-18)
Running time
 91 minutes
Country France
Language French
Box office 1,857,450 admissions (France)[1]

Shock Treatment (French: Traitement de choc) is a 1973 French drama film directed by Alain Jessua.[2] It was released in the UK by distributor Antony Balch as Doctor in the Nude.[3][4]

Plot

Depressed after being abandoned by her young lover, affluent Helene (Annie Girardot) heads off to a health clinic on the coast. The treatments by Dr. Devilers (Alain Delon) make her and the other guests feel better, and for a while that is enough. However, Helene stumbles upon the resort's dark secret: the patients rejuvenation comes at the expense of Portuguese youths, who arrive at the clinic to work in the gardens and are never seen again.

Cast

Critical reception

TV Guide wrote, "starts off with some clever and suspenseful moments in a relatively good looking setting. However, the tension quickly degenerates. Some attempts at satirizing the affluent pay off but aren't new or terribly witty. Delon gives some energy to his part and Girardot works, but the film never quite comes together" ;[5] while Time Out wrote, " Jessua handles his mixture of suspense and satire with assurance, drawing fine performances from Girardot, confused and finally uncertain of her sanity, and Delon as the diabolic yet half-sympathetic doctor in whose arms she finds herself. A neat cautionary tale on human vanity cum fable about hypocrisy." [6]

References

  1. ↑ Box office information at Box Office Story
  2. ↑ "TRAITEMENT DE CHOC". BFI.
  3. ↑ "French Film in Britain". google.co.uk.
  4. ↑ "Naked Lens". google.co.uk.
  5. ↑ "Shock Treatment". TVGuide.com.
  6. ↑ "Traitement de Choc". Time Out London.


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