A Dangerous Method (15)
Certificate:
Dir:
David Cronenberg
Year:
2011
Country:
Canada/Germany/GB/Switzerland
Language:
English
Length:
100 mins
Cast:
Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon
Format:
Digital
David Cronenberg's (Eastern Promises, A History of Violence) latest is the fascinating story of the intellectual tussle between famed psychoanalysts and friends, Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), set on the eve of WWI.
Confident and youthful, Jung's career is making great strides when he encounters repressed Russian heiress Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), who at first seems an exemplary test patient for his experimental techniques; but her beautiful, kinky appeal soon causes him to ditch his professional ethics. As Jung's reputation grows and he enters Freud's orbit, Cronenberg follows their relationship as they discuss the central tenets of their work – the troubled Sabina causing them to disagree – and as the power shifts from wizened mentor to ambitious protégé.
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