★★★½

(directed by David Cronenberg, 2012)

My friend invited me to come to see this with her last night, on its first day of release.  I went knowing very little about it, and without having ever seen a film directed by Cronenberg before.  I know that when it was shown at the London Film Festival last year it had mixed reviews, but I found it a subtle and thought-provoking introduction to Freud’s and Jung’s psychoanalytic theories, and a film that was very well acted by all three of its protagonists.  Writing these words, I’m becoming aware that everything I’ve seen or done recently has been described with a surfeit of superlatives, but I’m not being unduly nice, I’ve just been fortunate to have a spate of really enjoyable things to keep me occupied.

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