Girl, Interrupted

Slow, brooding films are becoming a rarity indeed - ones that create drama with little ostentatiousness, but a lot of intensity. Movies, which set out with an aim of probing some of life’s seemingly strange questions, are rarer, still. The mention of teenage in movies brings to us weird sexual escapades.

Girl, Interrupted comes as a much-needed break from such inanities. It is a touching chronicle of a teenage girl’s stay at a psychiatric hospital. It may not be very intense, but it is surely gripping. The tale is a true one, based on a book wri....