A Dangerous Method

Name: A Dangerous Method
Director: David Cronenberg
Released: 2011

David Cronenberg

2011

Synopsis

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.

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Keira KnightleySabina Spielrein
Viggo MortensenSigmund Freud
Michael FassbenderCarl Jung
Sarah GadonEmma Jung
Vincent CasselOtto Gross
André HennickeProfessor Eugen Bleuler
Arndt Schwering-SohnreySándor Ferenczi
Mignon ReméJung's Secretary
Mareike CarrièreFood Nurse
Franziska ArndtBath Nurse

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100
The Hollywood Reporter
Precise, lucid and thrillingly disciplined, this story of boundary-testing in the early days of psychoanalysis is brought to vivid life by the outstanding lead performances of Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender.
100
Salon
It's a handsome and stimulating film, noteworthy more for its terrific acting and provocative ideas than for any kind of dark Cronenbergundian genius.
88
Rolling Stone
The actors give it their all, especially Knightley, whose jaw- jutting, heavily accented and unfairly criticized portrayal gives the film its fighting spirit.
80
Movieline
In short, Cronenberg has made an elegant film, with spanking. There's some mildly kinky sex in A Dangerous Method, but Cronenberg makes it neither exploitive nor so tasteful that it loses its charge.
75
Slant Magazine
As rigorous and stimulating as its thematic inquiries are, A Dangerous Method ultimately rests as much on its performances, and in that regard, it succeeds far more than it fails.
70
Variety
This complex story from the early days of psychoanalysis engrosses and even amuses as it unfolds through a series of conversations, treatment sessions and exchanged letters.
60
Boxoffice Magazine
Michael Fassbender (Fishtank, Inglourious Basterds) is reliably great, severely outclassing costar Knightley's grating performance.
60
New York Daily News
A Dangerous Method concerns itself primarily with sex, but what's most shocking is how conservative it turns out to be.

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