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All beautifully done in vibrant colors like the old Douglas Sirk movies, including the gigantic office of the head of the asylum, which looks like a TWA VIP lounge. Tthe music is so derivative of Bernard Herrmann I expected Tony Perkins in a wig and a knife to appear. Some performances are good, especially Judy Davis as Nurse Bucket, who embodies all the frustrations of a working woman making it on her own but still committed to finding a husband in a time of suffocating patriarchy. But Amanda Plummer is wasted as a quirky, aging jazz baby and Paulson just does her usual cold but vulnerable menacing act. The whole thing is full of pretty colors, gratuitous grotesques, mindless direction and shoehorned social relevance, like the Netflix series Hollywood. What was most disappointing, though, is the pedestrian dialogue, some of which is so awkwardly expository you could follow the plot with the video turned off.