David Cronenberg, the director best known for body horror and sexually-charged thrillers, is tackling the history of psychoanalysis in the period drama, A Dangerous Method. Viggo Mortensen stars as Sigmund Freud and Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung. The meeting of these two minds birthed psychoanalysis at the turn of the century. The film also stars Keira Knightley as a Russian patient with whom Jung has an affair, and Vincent Cassel as Otto Gross, a psychoanalyst and Freud disciple.
As you can imagine, psychology students are creaming their pants over this flick. As a fan of Cronenberg and Fassbender, I am also quite looking forward to this. Check out the trailer and tell me what you think:
