Unconscious (2004)
(Inconscientes)
Country: SP/GER/PORT/IT
Technical: col 109m
Director: Joaquín Oristrell
Cast: Leonor Watling, Luis Tosar, Mercedes Sampietro, Juanjo Puigcorbé
Synopsis:
Just before the First World War the medical community of Barcelona is shaken when the administrator of the hospital announces that he is terminally ill with a brain tumour; at the same time one of his daughters loses her psychologist husband in what appears to be a plot centring on his thesis around four hysterical women, and enlists the sleuthing help of her brother-in-law, also related by marriage to the patriarch, and overlooked in his nomination of a successor to the top job.
Review:
Tongue-in-cheek period romp which culminates in the visit of none other than Sigmund Freud himself to the city, and features drug addiction, stag movie making and incest in its slew of saucy plot ingredients. There is an undercurrent of sexiness that pervades, announced by the prologue under the pretext that all our unconscious thoughts have in any case to do the S word, and this engagingly acted comedy calls to mind a Michel Deville crossed with Of Freaks and Men.
(Inconscientes)
Country: SP/GER/PORT/IT
Technical: col 109m
Director: Joaquín Oristrell
Cast: Leonor Watling, Luis Tosar, Mercedes Sampietro, Juanjo Puigcorbé
Synopsis:
Just before the First World War the medical community of Barcelona is shaken when the administrator of the hospital announces that he is terminally ill with a brain tumour; at the same time one of his daughters loses her psychologist husband in what appears to be a plot centring on his thesis around four hysterical women, and enlists the sleuthing help of her brother-in-law, also related by marriage to the patriarch, and overlooked in his nomination of a successor to the top job.
Review:
Tongue-in-cheek period romp which culminates in the visit of none other than Sigmund Freud himself to the city, and features drug addiction, stag movie making and incest in its slew of saucy plot ingredients. There is an undercurrent of sexiness that pervades, announced by the prologue under the pretext that all our unconscious thoughts have in any case to do the S word, and this engagingly acted comedy calls to mind a Michel Deville crossed with Of Freaks and Men.
(Inconscientes)
Country: SP/GER/PORT/IT
Technical: col 109m
Director: Joaquín Oristrell
Cast: Leonor Watling, Luis Tosar, Mercedes Sampietro, Juanjo Puigcorbé
Synopsis:
Just before the First World War the medical community of Barcelona is shaken when the administrator of the hospital announces that he is terminally ill with a brain tumour; at the same time one of his daughters loses her psychologist husband in what appears to be a plot centring on his thesis around four hysterical women, and enlists the sleuthing help of her brother-in-law, also related by marriage to the patriarch, and overlooked in his nomination of a successor to the top job.
Review:
Tongue-in-cheek period romp which culminates in the visit of none other than Sigmund Freud himself to the city, and features drug addiction, stag movie making and incest in its slew of saucy plot ingredients. There is an undercurrent of sexiness that pervades, announced by the prologue under the pretext that all our unconscious thoughts have in any case to do the S word, and this engagingly acted comedy calls to mind a Michel Deville crossed with Of Freaks and Men.