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Mademoiselle Paradis (2017)
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Mademoiselle Paradis (2017)
Original name: Licht
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 18th century Vienna. The true story of Maria Theresia von Paradis, a gifted piano player and close friend of Mozart’s, who lost her eye-sight as a child. Desperate to cure their talented daughter, the Paradis entrust Maria to Dr. Mesmer, a forward-thinking-physician who gives her the care and attention that she requires. With the doctor’s innovative techniques of magnetism, Maria slowly recovers her sight. But this miracle comes at a price as the woman progressively starts to lose her gift for music. Faced with a heavy dilemma, Mademoiselle Paradis will have to choose: an ordinary life in the light or an extraordinary life in darkness, as a virtuoso.
Style: atmospheric, serious, captivating, stylized, period piece
Plot: female musician, blindness, pianist, therapy, piano, doctor patient relationship, doctor, women, musician, music, hunting, parents, strength, disability, blind character, dancing, pregnancy, female nudity, blind man, singing, father daughter relationship, bare breasts, mother daughter relationship, chambermaid, pregnant woman ...
Time: 18th century, 1770s, georgian era, 1700s
Place: vienna, austria

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