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DVD & Blu-Ray: A Dangerous Method (15)

 

Ben Walsh
Thursday 28 June 2012 17:27 BST
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Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender as Sigmind Freud and Dr Carl Jung
Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender as Sigmind Freud and Dr Carl Jung (Lionsgate Films)

"Angels always speak in German, it's traditional," maintains fledgling shrink Dr Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender, who appears half-asleep here) to his deranged patient, Sabina (Keira Knightley, trying her best).

David Cronenberg's absurd drama is regularly unintentionally funny as it tackles the strained relations between Jung, the insufferable Sabina and the granddaddy of psychotherapy, Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen, who appears to be acting in an entirely different film; a better one).

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