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A Dangerous Method

2011

David Cronenberg

Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel ...

6.0

24,567

Drama Set on the eve of World War I, A Dangerous Method is based on the turbulent relationships between Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, Sigmund Freud, founder of the discipline of psychoanalysis, and Sabina Spielrein, initially a patient of Jung and later a physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Shaking off any dusty remnants of a period biographical piece, the film tackles thorny psycho-sexual issues and matters of professional ethics with a frankness that feels entirely contemporary"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Precise, lucid and thrillingly disciplined, David Cronenberg's film about boundary-testing in the early days of psychoanalysis is brought to vivid life by the outstanding lead performances"	POS
United Kingdom	David Gritten Telegraph	"Talky, cerebral and intensely complex in its depiction of a fraught three-cornered relationship, A Dangerous Method is quite unlike any other film by director David Cronenberg"	POS
United States	Scott Bowles USA Today	"Even with Knightley's beauty and her doctors' probing questions, Method lacks a certain heart (...) As a biographical film, Method gives real insight into its subjects, especially Jung (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'A Dangerous Method' is so strange and unnerving precisely because the world it depicts is, for better and for worse, the only one we know"	POS

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