Cronenberg's forthcoming film about Freud and Jung

[rich]

that sounds rather tame for cronenberg

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:22 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/15/cronenbergs-forthcom.html
>
> The inimitable David Cronenberg is directing a new film about Sigmund
> Freud and Carl Jung. Based on Christopher Hampton's stage play "The
> Talking Cure," the story revolves around a patient named Sabina.
> Titled "A Dangerous Method," the film, starring Viggo Mortensen as
> Freud, Michael Fassbender as Jung, and Keira Knightley as Sabine, is
> due out next year. From AceShowbiz:
>
> Detailing Knightley's character, director David Cronenberg recently
> said, "Really [Sabina] was a passionate, intelligent, very creative
> woman who didn't have an outlet for those things so it manifested
> itself as madness until she met Carl Jung. She was 18, he was about
> 29. They had an affair, she become his mistress." He concluded, "So
> it's the story of the three of them particularly and it's a really
> fascinating story."
>