Who's in it?
Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen

What's the plot?
Based on the play by Christopher Hampton, David Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method’ explores the intense relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and their controversial theories that created the science of psychoanalysis.

‘A Dangerous Method’ looks at the turbulent relationships between the psychiatrist, his mentor and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), the beautiful but dangerously disturbed young woman who comes between them in this shadowy tale of sexual and intellectual discovery.

BBFC Consumer Advice
Contains strong sex.
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Both my partner and I are very interested in the battle of the original psychological schools of thought so we went into this film expecting darkness and insanity and were surprised to find both well presented with great performances from Viggo, Michael and Keira.

I think we both felt that not enough was made of the influence that Spielrein had on the psychoanalytical world but the triangle of relationships, development of thought and conflict between Jung, Freud and Sprielrein played out well in this film.

Very enjoyable and different. Keira plays the misunderstood loon to great effect!

A FIVE Star film about who we are. Keira Knightly tied to a bed exploring the characters deepest sexual deviant pleasures demonstrates the Actors deservedly nomination for an Oscar winning performance.

Those who miss the powerful of story this film, the mind breaking developments in Psychoanalysis, I suspect would rate the Muppets as a 10 for real life performances.

as someone with little knowledge of psychoanalysis i found the film informative and in my book that's never a bad thing.
the acting in my view was very good except for the odd bit of hamming from the normally brilliant Michael Fassbender.
the cinematography was excellent.
my main gripe would be the relevance to the film, and the factual basis, of the spanking scenes. granted David Cronenberg may argue artistic licence but i just see female exploitation. for this reason alone i've marked it down from the four stars i would otherwise have given the film.