Oslo International Film Festival
Opening film 2011: A DANGEROUS METHOD
Oslo International Film Festival 2011 opens with a gala screening of David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method on Wednesday, November 16th. We are proud to present the Canadian director’s latest feature film. A Dangerous Method premiered at the Venice Film Festival earlier this fall, and has since had great success at the film festivals in Toronto, New York, London and Vienna. In his third collaboration with Cronenberg, leading man Viggo Mortensen is cast as Sigmund Freud. The promising psychiatrist Carl Jung is portrayed by Michael Fassbender. Keira Knightley plays Sabina Spilrein, the young Russian patient who will have a decisive influence on the the relationship between Freud and Jung and their work. The plot takes place in Vienna and Zürich in the years prior to World War I. Based on real events, the film tells the story about the pioneers of psychoanalysis and the conflict between them.
DIRECTOR
David Cronenberg (b. 1943). Selected filmography: Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983), The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988), Naked Lunch (1991), Crash (1996), eXistenZ (1999), A History of Violence (2005) and Eastern Promises (2007).
Opening film 2011: A DANGEROUS METHOD
Oslo International Film Festival 2011 opens with a gala screening of David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method on Wednesday, November 16th. We are proud to present the Canadian director’s latest feature film. A Dangerous Method premiered at the Venice Film Festival earlier this fall, and has since had great success at the film festivals in Toronto, New York, London and Vienna. In his third collaboration with Cronenberg, leading man Viggo Mortensen is cast as Sigmund Freud. The promising psychiatrist Carl Jung is portrayed by Michael Fassbender. Keira Knightley plays Sabina Spilrein, the young Russian patient who will have a decisive influence on the the relationship between Freud and Jung and their work. The plot takes place in Vienna and Zürich in the years prior to World War I. Based on real events, the film tells the story about the pioneers of psychoanalysis and the conflict between them.
DIRECTOR
David Cronenberg (b. 1943). Selected filmography: Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983), The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988), Naked Lunch (1991), Crash (1996), eXistenZ (1999), A History of Violence (2005) and Eastern Promises (2007).