An Impossible Outing, Trying to Condense Psychoanalysis Founder Sigmund Freud,
His Cutting-Edge (actually unheard of) Approach to Psychiatric Problems of the Mind, IN 2+HRS.
His Ground-Breaking Approach, Examinations, and Treatment of Patients
went From Applause to Ultra-Skepticism and Outright Ridicule throughout the 20th Century,.
His "Discoveries" and Treatment are Still Controversial to This Day.
But Director John Huston had Wanted to Try and Bring "Freud" to the Screen for Decades.
So He Hired Montgomery Clift even though Their Relationship was "Strained" after "The Misfits" (1959).
The Behind the Scenes Activity is Infamous.
Some Claim Huston was "Sadistic" to Clift,
who was Suffering Himself from Repressed Homosexuality.
But Clift, in the End, Delivered a Bravo Performance.
Susannah York, at the Tender Age of 17, also Delivers a Mature and Very Effective Performance as the Film's Very Troubled Central Patient.
The Score by Jerry Goldsmith is Moody, Striking, and Nominated for an AA, as were Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt for the Screenplay.
The Strength of the Film is the Dark Norish Cinematography, it's Then Taboo Subject of Sexuality, and the Spirited, but Talky (Psycho-Therapy's Medicine) Script.
A Truly Off-Beat Film Restrained by the Code and a Generally Repellent Subject for Some Folks, at the Inner-Workings of Humanities Primal Drive.
For those Reasons and the Fact that it is a Fine Experimental Film, its...
Worth a Watch.
His Cutting-Edge (actually unheard of) Approach to Psychiatric Problems of the Mind, IN 2+HRS.
His Ground-Breaking Approach, Examinations, and Treatment of Patients
went From Applause to Ultra-Skepticism and Outright Ridicule throughout the 20th Century,.
His "Discoveries" and Treatment are Still Controversial to This Day.
But Director John Huston had Wanted to Try and Bring "Freud" to the Screen for Decades.
So He Hired Montgomery Clift even though Their Relationship was "Strained" after "The Misfits" (1959).
The Behind the Scenes Activity is Infamous.
Some Claim Huston was "Sadistic" to Clift,
who was Suffering Himself from Repressed Homosexuality.
But Clift, in the End, Delivered a Bravo Performance.
Susannah York, at the Tender Age of 17, also Delivers a Mature and Very Effective Performance as the Film's Very Troubled Central Patient.
The Score by Jerry Goldsmith is Moody, Striking, and Nominated for an AA, as were Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt for the Screenplay.
The Strength of the Film is the Dark Norish Cinematography, it's Then Taboo Subject of Sexuality, and the Spirited, but Talky (Psycho-Therapy's Medicine) Script.
A Truly Off-Beat Film Restrained by the Code and a Generally Repellent Subject for Some Folks, at the Inner-Workings of Humanities Primal Drive.
For those Reasons and the Fact that it is a Fine Experimental Film, its...
Worth a Watch.