Cronenberg's forthcoming film about Freud and Jung

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 15:31:30 CST 2010


We'll have to wait and see.  Delving into psychotic imagery seems a
likely possibility.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:25 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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."
>>
>



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