The busy public hospital in the Parisian suburb of Clichy has one psychiatrist on staff. Every day, as doggedly tracked by the nervy handheld camera of Nicolas Peduzzi’s “On the Edge,&#…
,” he deals with some of the most intractable afflictions the hospital ever sees. His patients, often referred to him after being treated for other ailments, can be mentally ill, traumatized, addicted, depressed, suicidal or any combination thereof.
We’re introduced to 34-year-old Jamal from behind, a fluttering white coat walking briskly down one of the hospital’s corridors. We see a lot of the institution’s thoroughfares, its shabby hallways and Escher-like interior and exterior staircases, since Jamal is almost always on the move. It’s all Peduzzi’s camera can do to scurry after him, but often he’ll call back over his shoulder to bring us up to speed on his latest treatment, or to finish a thought.
In one room, there’s gentle, recuperating addict Aliénor, who lost both her legs and a forearm in a drug-fueled fall from a bridge. In the next, there’s Wendy, a young man admitted for pancreatitis but brought into Jamal’s care when it became clear the pain of it was at least partly symptomatic of much deeper issues. Down the hallway, a young, hyper-religious, clearly unstable Dutch woman begs not to be sent back to her abusive mother in Maastricht.
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