DVD Review: A Dangerous Method

A DANGEROUS METHOD

Stars: Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, Sarah Gadon, Vincent Cassel | Written by Christopher Hampton | Directed by David Cronenberg

The turn-of-the-century meeting of two historically significant minds, Doctors Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, may not seem at first glance like a film David Cronenberg was likely to have made. Two psychoanalysts sitting in rooms and talking for 90 minutes? Surely this is a odd path for the Baron of Blood to take. Yet from the opening scene alone Keira Knightley being held, screaming and contorted, in the back of a car its easy to tell that A Dangerous Method is most definitely a Cronenberg movie.

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