Freud

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Freud

1962,

2h 20m,

Biography

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500+ Ratings

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John Huston's biopic of Sigmund Freud (Montgomery Clift) follows the progress of the father of psychoanalytical psychiatry as he develops the notion that neurosis stems from sexual repression. By treating patients with various issues, including a woman haunted by recurring dreams (Susannah York) and a man with an Oedipus complex (David McCallum), Freud experiences epiphanies that lead to the birth of modern analysis, despite the scorn his theories initially receive from his colleagues.

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Elizabeth Sussex

Sight & Sound

Feb 11, 2020

Huston seems inhibited rather than inspired by [the material]: his energy bottled up and his camera forced to a standstill by careful compositions.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Dec 15, 2014

While in different hands (Orson Welles's, for instance) these radical themes could have inspired more hallucinatory, probing, and inward images, Huston nonetheless evokes an apt sense of wonder, admiration, and awe.

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Kathy Fennessy

Video Librarian Magazine

Feb 25, 2022

3.5/4

...a film of considerable artistic and intellectual merit, and deserves recognition as something other than a production nightmare.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Dec 4, 2021

3/4

Here's a movie where the dream sequences appropriately enhance rather than injure the story.

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Frank J. Avella

Edge Media Network

Nov 2, 2021

B

Clift's performance is eerily effective and pensively restraint.

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Clyde Gilmour

Maclean's Magazine

Oct 7, 2019

I cannot imagine why director John Huston decided that the painful mumble and glassy stare of Hollywood's Montgomery Clift made him suitable to portray the Viennese father of psychiatry.

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Sigmund Freud

Susannah York

Cecily Koertner

Larry Parks

Dr. Joseph Breuer

Susan Kohner

Martha Freud

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Synopsis

John Huston's biopic of Sigmund Freud (Montgomery Clift) follows the progress of the father of psychoanalytical psychiatry as he develops the notion that neurosis stems from sexual repression. By treating patients with various issues, including a woman haunted by recurring dreams (Susannah York) and a man with an Oedipus complex (David McCallum), Freud experiences epiphanies that lead to the birth of modern analysis, despite the scorn his theories initially receive from his colleagues.

Director: John Huston
Producer: Wolfgang Reinhardt
Screenwriter: Charles Kaufman, Wolfgang Reinhardt
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Bavaria Film
Genre: Biography
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 12, 1962, Original
Runtime: 2h 20m

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