Lost in Frenchlation: Etat Limité, A Psychological Documentary

On this episode Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray sit down with director Nicolas Peduzzi to talk about his latest documentary film Etat Limité or "On the Edge." 

The Film follows a young psychiatrist Jamal during his daily rounds at the well-known Hospital Beaujon on the edge of Paris. Jamal has to navigate time constraints and budgetary restrictions whilst trying to care for his patients as best he can. Shot over the corse of 3 years, Etat Limité is an incredible portrait of the compassion of a young doctor and limitations of the healthcare system. 

Nicolas Peduzzi is a French actor and director. He studied theater and cinema in Italy and New York. His first feature documentary, Southern Belle, a portrait of real-life 26 year-old Texan Taelor Ranzau, was released in 2018, and won the Grand Prix of the FID Marseille in 2019. In 2021. His next film Ghost Song portrayed young people in Houston living on the "fringes" and fighting for survival. Etat Limité is his latest documentary. 

You can find him on instagram @nicolaspeduzzi

Film Recommendations from this episode:

On the Adamant: (Sur L'Adamant) 2023 by Nicolas Philibert - Follows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.

Ětra Là: 2012 by Régis Sauder. A story about the psychiatrists, nurses or occupational therapists at the Baumettes detention center in Marseille who receive inmates and help them with their mental illness. The work is hard and thankless but for these workers it is a necessity to participate in the helping of those who suffer.

Opening Song in the Film:

Evile Grimace: Pour Mes Gens

This episode was recorded at L'Epée de Bois