Indie Focus: 'Hysteria' is a self-satisfying endeavor
The fictional film by director Tanya Wexler examines how a beleaguered doctor in Victorian England came to invent the vibrator.A polite comedy about a potentially rude subject,"Hysteria"takes its title from the medical condition diagnosed to women in Victorian England for any number of unrelated symptoms. As a treatment, doctors would stimulate a woman to orgasm, referred to as "manual massage to paroxysm," leading one beleaguered physician, essentially as a labor-saving device, to invent the vibrator.
