Fresh
It makes for an absorbing drama and leaves the mustiness of cigars in the theatre.
David Thomson, The New Republic
A Dangerous Method
Why deny what you desire the most.
2011 · 1h 39m · R
Drama
Directed by
David Cronenberg
Overview
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
Director and cast
- David Cronenberg Director
- Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud
- Keira Knightley as Sabina Spielrein
- Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung
- Vincent Cassel as Otto Gross
- Sarah Gadon as Emma Jung
- André Hennicke as Professor Eugen Bleuler
- Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey as Sandor Ferenczi
- Katharina Palm as Martha Freud
- Mignon Remé as Jung's Secretary
- Mareike Carrière as Food Nurse
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
77%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Knightley gives a fair performance but lumbers herself with a distracting accent, and her gurning in the early scenes may be too much for some to bear.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Rotten
The true story is extraordinary; the film is not, although the actors are all fine.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
Like psychoanalysis, "A Dangerous Method" takes its time as it circles an opening to unexplored depths.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
A Dangerous Method is a suave chamber piece: a series of glimpses of two 20th-century intellectual titans, in friendship and separation, and the story of a remarkable woman who history had swallowed up, brought into the light again.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
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