A DANGEROUS METHOD
Repression runs rampant, with sexual and romantic desires subsumed beneath societal and ethical constructs in a manner echoed by David Cronenberg’s expertly composed direction. For his tale of the intellectual relationship – and, later, battle – between Carl Gustav Jung and his idol/mentor Sigmund Freud, Cronenberg employs a cool, refined period-décor formalism, his camera movements as deliberate as his characters’ external appearances are polished and restrained, and yet his placement of figures within his frame boast the same electric charge as his subjects’ roiling thoughts and passions. Cronenberg’s focus remains, as always, on issues of mind/body invasion, corruption, and rebirth, which here revolves around Jung’s relationship with patient Sabina Spielrein, who, over the course of the next decade, eventually takes Jung into her bed before finding herself inadvertently in the middle of his war with Freud. (Nick Schager)
- Viggo Mortensen - Sigmund Freud
- Keira Knightley - Sabina Spielrein
- Michael Fassbender - Carl Gustav Jung
- Sarah Gadon - Emma Jung
- Vincent Cassel - Otto Gross
- André Hennicke - Professor Eugen Bleuler
- Christopher Hampton nach seinem Theaterstück «A Talking Cure» und nach John Kerrs Buch «A Most Dangerous Method»
- Peter Suschitzky
- Ronald Sanders
- Ronald Sanders
- Howard Shore
- James McAteer
- Denise Cronenberg
HanWay Films
