A Dangerous Method
In 1904 a Russian woman named Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) arrives at Carl Jung's (Michael Fassbender) clinic, seeking treatment for hysteria. Jung has begun using Dr. Sigmund Freud's talking cure with some of his patients. Both men fall under Sabina's spell.
6 November 1972
26 July 1954, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
2 April 1977, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
1959
4 April 1987, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
24 December 1979, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
20 October 1958, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
June 14, 2016
There's way too little danger and too much method in the cushy, tasteful, icy cool A Dangerous Method.
May 03, 2015
These characters' big brains can never quite control their unruly bodies, and when the sex finally erupts, it's like something from one of the Canadian filmmaker's early creature features.
January 20, 2012
The true story is extraordinary; the film is not, although the actors are all fine.
September 15, 2012
A Dangerous Method is beautifully crafted and abundant with subtext but it's also sterile, dramatically turgid and at times, kind of a drag.
January 13, 2012
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.
February 07, 2012
Knightley gives a fair performance but lumbers herself with a distracting accent, and her gurning in the early scenes may be too much for some to bear.
January 12, 2012
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.
January 20, 2012
Like psychoanalysis, "A Dangerous Method" takes its time as it circles an opening to unexplored depths.
October 07, 2015
"A Dangerous Method" is a deeply political cautionary tale from a staunch atheist about the price of conformity and repression.
July 30, 2012
While [it] offers up the kind of creepy, carnal delights we usually enjoy in a Cronenberg flick, I found myself more intrigued by the matters of the mind that are more fleetingly addressed.
June 20, 2013
It makes for an absorbing drama and leaves the mustiness of cigars in the theatre.
September 18, 2012
There are some plays that are meant to remain on the stage. This is one of them.
