Director Tanya Wexler’s rom-com about the invention of the vibrator is more tame than its subject suggests. Delivering a tickle more often than a sustained buzz, Tanya Wexler‘s romantic comedy about the invention of the electric vibrator in Victorian London, Hysteria, is a pleasurable diversion, even if it could have used a touch more spark [...]

How three women producers joined forces to put together a daring period movie about romance, the stirrings of feminism and the invention of the modern vibrator. On The Luxembourg set of Hysteria, Maggie Gyllenhaal is panting. But it’s not from a close encounter with the world’s first ‘electro mechanical vibrator,’ the invention of which is [...]