Review of Elle s'appelle Sabine

I am a clinical social worker who has worked with the severe and persistently mentally ill for over 20 years. I therefore recognized immediately the signs of a person who is over medicated, specifically with the psychotropic drug Clozaril, combined with an unknown number of others. Why I'm confused is because people who are autistic are not necessarily psychotic; there was no mention of this poor woman, Sabine, being psychotic, yet with drugs used to treat psychosis, she was transformed from a beautiful, intelligent, and talented, albeit autistic young woman into a neuroleptic casualty, complete with drooling, obesity, uncontrollable trembling and impaired cognitive abilities, seemingly because the doctors in the psychiatric hospital where she was left didn't know what else to do with her acting out symptoms. Throughout the entire film, I felt like crying, and wishing I could somehow get that woman to some place where they would know how to treat her and somehow reverse all the damage that's been done to her and retrieve some of her original beauty and abilities. I wonder if her beautiful and talented sister, Sandrine, looked in this country for treatment options.