Carl Jung, an analyzer in psychiatric hospital in Zurich, heals a patient of Hysteria called Sabina Spielrein with the Freudian method. Founding her intelligent, Jung asked Sabina to join him in analyzing and healing patients. Jung fell in love although he does not want to cheat on his wife. Affected by his new patient, Otto Gross, Jung goes on a relationship with Sabina. When Jung meets Freud he informs him of his relationship with Sabina. Finally it does not end well for all the four.
Knightley gives a fair performance but lumbers herself with a distracting accent, and her gurning in the early scenes may be too much for some to bear.
Cronenberg has reached the stage of his career where he doesn't feel it necessary to pander to expectations. Instead he seeks to engage us, and he succeeds.
Philadelphia Weekly
May 03, 2015
These characters' big brains can never quite control their unruly bodies, and when the sex finally erupts, it's like something from one of the Canadian filmmaker's early creature features.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 20, 2012
Like psychoanalysis, "A Dangerous Method" takes its time as it circles an opening to unexplored depths.
A Dangerous Method is a suave chamber piece: a series of glimpses of two 20th-century intellectual titans, in friendship and separation, and the story of a remarkable woman who history had swallowed up, brought into the light again.
While [it] offers up the kind of creepy, carnal delights we usually enjoy in a Cronenberg flick, I found myself more intrigued by the matters of the mind that are more fleetingly addressed.