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Release Date 10 Feb 2012 TBA
83% of raters want to see this movie
Certificate: 16
Genre: Drama | Suspense | Thriller
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as his patient in A DANGEROUS METHOD. Jung's weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). Both men fall under Sabina's spell.
Cast: Viggo Mortensen | Keira Knightley | Michael Fassbender | Vincent Cassel | Sarah Gadon | André Hennicke | Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey | Mignon Remé | Mareike Carrière | Franziska Arndt | Wladimir Matuchin | André Dietz | Anna Thalbach | Sarah Marecek | Bjorn Geske
Writers: Christopher Hampton
Producers:
Directors: David Cronenberg
Our critics review will be added soon.
In one scene, Freud turns to Jung and says, "do you realise we've been talking for 13 hours?". He could just as easily be referring to the film itself.
I rarely get the urge to get up and walk out of a film but I did when watching a dangerous method. The films dialogue was overly complex and drawn out and really lost my interest. I felt there was no real chemistry between Kinghtley and Fassbender which made the whole film seem unbelieveable. Honestly I had read many good reviews for this before seeing it and it simply bored me .
It never really gets under the skin in the way Cronenberg does at his best.
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.
David Cronenberg continues to move away from his body horror roots with A Dangerous Method, an adaptation of the play The Talking Cure. It's about the meeting and ongoing dialogue between two great psychoanalytical minds of the early 20th Century - Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud and the female patient/colleague caught between them. It's mostly a stately, clinical, cerebral chamber piece that promises fireworks but never really delivers. It feels half-baked at times, with Freud very much a background character which is a shame. Empire recently noted that Keira Knightley can be viewed as cinematic Marmite but here she's a revelation, twisting and contorting her face and body to convey her character's damaged personality. Cronenberg is always essential viewing for any film fan but like his earlier, similar film Spider, it's unlikely that A Dangerous Method will have any lasting appeal.
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