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A Dangerous Method – review

published Thu, Feb 09 2012 09:29 GMT
A droll undercurrent of black comedy underlies David Cronenberg's drama about Freud, Jung and male hysterics"These modern analysts! They charge so much!" declares a character in Woody Allen's collection Getting Even, "In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For 10 marks, he would treat you and press your pants." Sigmund Freud's tricky financial situation has a recurring cameo in David Cronenberg's seriocomic new movie, an adaptation of Christopher Hampton's play The Talking Cure, about Freud, Jung and their mutual patient-acquaintance, and later colleague, Sabina Spielrein. It's an entertaining reminder that the sex-instinct once had an intimate psychological link with poverty. It meant children to feed and clothe.This is a cool, measured, loquacious film; even its sexual adventures ...

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