You'd think it'd be a tall order to make a film about vibrators that’s completely devoid of eroticism, š but director Tanya Wexler has just about pulled it off.
Twee, feather-light and determinedly quaint, Hysteria centres on the mostly true story of an idealistic doctor (Hugh Dancy) who invents the first vibrator as a means of managing ‘hystericaź¦l’ (read: sexually frustrated) housewives.
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s feisty turn almost saves it, but itš»’s tough to imagine what the audience for this will be – too unsexy for a date movie, too much fingering for a see-with-your-mum movie.
