Dangerous Method, A

NOMINATED FOR 11 GENIES, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE

What do you think it means that Cronenberg’s elegant drama about the invention of psychoanalysis features a dream cast including Cronen-muse Viggo Mortensen as Freud, the omnipresent Michael Fassbender as Jung and Keira Knightly, playing against WASP-type, as a patient who becomes Jung’s lover? “A handsome and stimulating film… [with] an erotic, psychoactive undertow.” (Salon)