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A Dangerous Method
A Dangerous Method

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Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen
Nov 23, 2011
R, 1 hr. 39 min.

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Cast: Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon, André Hennicke, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Mignon Reme, Mareike Carriere, Franziska Arndt
Director: David Cronenberg
Rated: R
Running Time: 1 hr. 39 min.
Genre: Mystery & Suspense, Drama
Theater Release: Nov 23, 2011
DVD Release: Mar 27, 2012
Synopsis: 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. -- (C) Sony Pictures Classics

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
    Cronenberg spares us few of the gory details of the patient who brought the two fathers of psychoanalysis together and helped tear them apart.
  • Tom Long, Detroit News
    The true story is extraordinary; the film is not, although the actors are all fine.
  • Joe Baltake, Passionate Moviegoer
    Cronenberg's 'A Dangerous Method': Vertiginous Intellectuality
  • Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
    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.
  • Peter Howell, Toronto Star
    Cronenberg has reached the stage of his career where he doesn't feel it necessary to pander to expectations. Instead he seeks to engage us, and he succeeds.
  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews
    Knightley's portrayal is feral and unsettling.
  • Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
    A Dangerous Method is well cast with Michael Fassbender as a pent-up Jung and Viggo Mortensen as Freud. Keira Knightley​ inhabits the fits and fury of Spielrein.
  • Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
    This is a freaky thing to behold: Knightley's wildly physical rendering of a mentally unbalanced soul.
  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
    Pivots as much on political gamesmanship and intellectual dominance as sadomasochistic urges and infidelity.
  • Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
    "A Dangerous Method'' begins where other films hope to culminate.
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