A Star-Making Performance
Mesmer, the story of an eighteenth-century healer, still doesn't have a U.S. distributor. But Alan Rickman's acting in the title role is inspired.

Mesmer, the story of an eighteenth-century healer, still doesn't have a U.S. distributor. But Alan Rickman's acting in the title role is inspired.
“Lynch must be one of the most unalloyed surrealists ever to work in the movies; his material seems to come to the screen straight from his unconscious, uncensored.”