A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
David Cronenberg's film involves the early years of psychoanalysis, the eventful association of Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Jung (Michael Fassbender), and the role played in their lives by Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), who was first their patient and later their colleague. Intelligent, absorbing; it would help to know something about psychoanalysis, or at least be curious to learn, before seeing this film. - Three and a half stars
