This time, I was particularly struck by the way that A Dangerous Method registers primarily as a film about psychoanalysis, rather than as either a romance between Jung and Sabina Spielrein (plus domestic element added by his relationship with his wife and their children) or a drama of conflict between Jung and his father-figure Freud, both of which are depicted in enough detail to have allowed them to take such a focus in a different film - an effect that Cronenberg achieves through a very formal and intellectual, even chilly, approach, which feels apt given the subject and period. Also - Vincent Cassel is enjoyable as the wolfish hedonist Otto Gross.
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