Clips of the Mère Folle film shoot in Spain
Don Luís the elder
An old friend of Françoise’s father, Don Luís disabuses Françoise and the audience of their idealization of heroism. He remains Françoise’s only source for childhood memories.
Don Luís: Francisco Fernández Navarrete
Françoise: Françoise Davoine
Françoise the elder
In her quest for understanding the tragic failure of psychoanalysis, Françoise revisits her own past, of which she has no memories. Through Don Luís she can reach out to her father, whose stories she never quite understood.
Françoise: Françoise Davoine
Don Luís: Francisco Fernández Navarrete
Don Luís the younger
Surprised by Françoise’s professional choice, Don Luís tries to comfort her, in spite of his own difficulties.
Don Luís the younger: Alberto Montoya Hernández
Françoise the younger: Susana Espín López
Françoise the younger
Just starting her career as a psychoanalyst, the younger Françoise is discovering the violence behind madness and the madness violence generates. Full of doubt, she tries to convince herself by talking to the avuncular Don Luís.
Françoise the younger: Susana Espín López
Don Luís the younger: Alberto Montoya Hernández
The school
While in Spain to visit Don Luís in prison, Françoise eavesdrops in a school where children learn about the great madness of the 1930s, when the Spanish Civil War set everyone up against everyone, and prepared the ground for WWII.
School mistress: Salomé Cuesta Valera (school mistress)
School master: Bárbaro Miyares Puig
Pupils: students of Colegio Obispos García y Ródenas, Bullas