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Nov 6, 2017 · The film offers a refreshingly holistic view of Laing—emphasizing his revolutionary existentialist approach to human suffering while admitting his personal and moral shortcomings. Revolutionary ...
Apr 4, 2017 · Tennant’s performance is electric and he brings some of Laing’s shamanic brilliance across – during a lecture tour in New York (pictured above), he shuts himself in a padded cell with a young girl who hasn’t eaten or spoken in months.
Mad to Be Normal is a 2017 British drama film directed by Robert Mullan and written by Robert Mullan and Tracy Moreton. The film stars David Tennant, Elisabeth Moss, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Gambon, David Bamber, Olivia Poulet and Trevor White.
With Michael Gambon, David Tennant, Elisabeth Moss, Gabriel Byrne. During the 1960s, a renegade Scottish psychiatrist courts controversy within his profession for his approach to the field, and for the unique community he creates for his patients to inhabit.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Robert Mullan
- 2017-04-06
Aug 3, 2018 · Mad To Be Normal is certainly entertaining and witty, occasionally shocking, and sometimes worrying. The main cast – Tennant, Gambon, Moss and Byrne – is an embarrassment of riches. It’s a riot of rich colour and lurid pattern, with flashbacks to people’s childhood memories a in black and white.
- Robert Mullan
Mar 9, 2017 · Our new book Ronald Laing: The rise and fall and rise of a revolutionary psychiatrist sets that story in context – telling the strange tale of Laing’s revolt inside Scottish mental hospitals, and also his wider story in the context of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture.
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Aug 21, 2018 · Mad to Be Normal’s best moments are those involving Laing and his patients, particular their one-on-one interactions. Scenes in which he gives Sydney LSD in the hope of drawing out his repressed trauma, or when he quietly engages with a young woman who has been locked in a padded room by more conventional doctors, are incredibly compelling ...
