Titicut Follies
First screened in December 2012
Director: Frederick Wiseman. Documentary record of daily living inside Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Bridgewater, a prison hospital for the criminally insane.
Twitter Capsule: Doc chronicles casual taunting, listless warehousing of asylum inmates, hyper-managed yet unmoored in time, space.

Photo © 1967 Bridgewater Film Co., Inc.
Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: A–


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