Dangerous Method (2011)

"Cronenberg's film is at once a lucid movie of ideas, a compelling narrative, and a splendidly acted love story.  J. Hoberman, Village Voice
"Precise, lucid and thrillingly disciplined  Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

Editor's Note Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender star in director David Cronenberg's adaptation of Christopher Hampton's play detailing the deteriorating relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. The year is 1904. Carl Jung (Fassbender), a disciple of Sigmund Freud (Mortensen), is using Freudian techniques to treat Russian-Jewish psychiatric patient Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) at Burghölzli Mental Hospital. But the deeper Jung's relationship with Spielrein grows, the further the burgeoning psychiatrist and his highly respected mentor drift apart. As Jung struggles to help his patient overcome some pressing paternal issues, disturbed patient Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel) sets out to test the boundaries of the doctor's professional resolve. A DANGEROUS METHOD screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.

	Sarah Gadon
	Keira Knightley
	Michael Fassbender
	Viggo Mortensen
	Vincent Cassel
	Anna Thalbach - Co-Star
	Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey - Co-Star
	Andre Hennicke - Co-Star
	Christopher Hampton - Screenwriter
	Christopher Hampton - Source Writer
	Howard Shore - Composer
	Howard Shore - Music Arranger
	Peter Suschitzky - Director of Photography
	John Kerr - Source Writer
	Mareike Carriere - Co-Star
	Katharina Palm - Co-Star
	Mignon Reme - Co-Star
	Franziska Arndt - Co-Star
	Wladimir Matuchin - Co-Star
	Andre Dietz - Co-Star
	Sarah Marecek - Co-Star
	Bjorn Geske - Co-Star
	Markus Haase - Co-Star
	Christian Serritiello - Co-Star
	Clemens Giebel - Co-Star
	Theo Meller - Co-Star
	Jost Grix - Co-Star
	Severin vonHoensbroech - Co-Star
	Torsten Knippertz - Co-Star
	Dirk S. Greis - Co-Star
	Nina Azizi - Co-Star
	Julie Chevallier - Co-Star
	Cynthia Cosima - Co-Star
	Mirko Guckeisen - Co-Star
	Julia Mack - Co-Star
	Andrea Magro - Co-Star
	Aaron Keller - Co-Star
	Nadine Salomon - Co-Star
	Naike Jaszczyk - Co-Star
	Sarah Adams - Co-Star
	David Cronenberg - Director

Hollywood Reporter
"The dialogue is constantly confronting, articulate and stimulating, the intellectual exchanges piercing at times. Cronenberg's direction is at one with the writer's diamond-hard rigor..."

Wall Street Journal
"Mr. Fassbender is entirely persuasive...and Mr. Mortensen is intriguingly nuanced." 09/09/2011

Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he flick is a view of our perpetually nascent relationship to medicine, and particularly the study of consiousness....Michael Fassbender is reliably great..." 09/06/2011

Los Angeles Times
"[I]t is talk -- smart, satisfying and sometimes even thrilling -- that is at the heart of A DANGEROUS METHOD....The confident directing style of David is essential in making this kind of intellectually stimulating cinema look easy." 11/23/2011

New York Times
"[A] subtle and intellectually thrilling true story..." 11/23/2011

Movieline
"[T]he exchanges between Fassbender?s Jung and Mortensen?s Freud are the movie?s greatest pleasures." 11/22/2011

A.V. Club
"Mortensen, cast against type, particularly excels in the part." 11/22/2011

Chicago Sun-Times
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[A]bsorbing....Mortensen's performance is masterful in the way it shows Freud as a contained, analytical logician..." 12/14/2011

Entertainment Weekly
"Fassbender emits a real erotic charge....The movie is a sturdily constructed triangle of desires." -- Grade: A- 12/09/2011

Rolling Stone
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Leave it to Cronenberg to make the cerebral sizzle....The actors give it their all, especially Knightley..." 12/08/2011

Washington Post
3 stars out of 4 -- "[I]ts very restraint makes A DANGEROUS METHOD perhaps Cronenberg's most transgressive movie yet, one in which ideas - rather than their fetishistic signifiers - possess more energy and verve than the most calculated shock effect." 12/16/2011

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "Viggo Mortensen delivers another charismatic big man as Freud..." 04/01/2012

Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "It's a torrid love triangle, but one where the players are articulate about their own impulses....It's all the better for its restraint." 03/01/2012

The Globe and Mail 10 of 10
Mostly, though, 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. - Liam Lacey