People’s Choice: A DANGEROUS METHOD
You gave LIKE CRAZY 3.0 points out of 5.
You gave THE GUARD 4.3 points out of 5.
You gave CAFÉ DE FLORE 4.3 points out of 5.
You gave MY WEEK WITH MARILYN 4.4 points out of 5.
You gave MELANCHOLIA 2.8 points out of 5.
You gave FRENCH IMMERSION, 4.3 points out of 5.
You gave LE HAVRE 4.3 points out of 5.
250: A film series milestone
We passed a milestone last week, and didn’t even notice. LIKE CRAZY was the 250th movie shown by the Cape Breton Island Film Series.
We began in January, 2003 with the Michael Moore documentary BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE, and we’re now in our 10th year.
You can download a list — alphabetical or chronological — of all the movies we’ve shown. I used to say the list is a great aide-mémoire at the video store, but there aren’t many video stores left.
There’s still a film series, though! Thank you so much for your support of independent movie screenings in Cape Breton.
Mar 15 — A DANGEROUS METHOD
At the dawn of psychotherapy, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud fall for the same beautiful but troubled patient. David Cronenberg directs the story in a manner that is half psychodrama, half costume drama.
Drawn from true-life events, A DANGEROUS METHOD explores the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud, and Sabina Spielrein, the beautiful but disturbed young woman who comes between them, played with intensity by Keira Knightly.
Michael Fassbender plays Jung with enough conviction to make you believe in the collective unconscious, while Viggo Mortensen plays the ‘father of modern psychiatry,’ Frued himself.
Confessing to feelings that are “vile and filthy and corrupt,” Sabina’s greatest desire is to be tied up and spanked. Jung, with frowning diligence, duly obliges. But as befits the subject matter, A DANGEROUS METHOD focuses more on talk than sexual action.
Sensuality, ambition and deceit set the scene for the pivotal moment when Jung, Freud, and Sabina come together and split apart, forever changing the face of modern thought.
A DANGEROUS METHOD plays one show only, 7 p.m., Thursday, MARCH 15, at the Empire Theatres Studio 10, 325 Prince Street, Sydney. Tickets $11, students $7.
People’s Choice: LIKE CRAZY
You gave THE GUARD 4.3 points out of 5.
You gave CAFÉ DE FLORE 4.3 points out of 5.
You gave MY WEEK WITH MARILYN 4.4 points out of 5.
You gave MELANCHOLIA 2.8 points out of 5.
You gave FRENCH IMMERSION, 4.3 points out of 5.
You gave LE HAVRE, 4.3 points out of 5.
What is it with 4.3, anyway? The universal film series consensus.
Mar 8 — LIKE CRAZY
Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones play Jacob and Anna, college students in L.A. who fall for each other shortly before Anna’s planned return to her London home. Their first encounters are impossibly sweet, but then, under the covers, Jacob asks, “what are we going to do after graduation?”
Jacob and Anna struggle nobly against the inevitable. At the last minute, Anna decides to overstay her visa, with the result that, when she does go home for a family visit, she’s not allowed to come back. Their relationship becomes an on-again, off-again long-distance affair.
The movie steps across months without transition, moving from blissful reunions to periods when each is seeing someone else and back again. Transcontinental text messages from one dampen the other’s budding new relationship; pleas to make things work nourish unwarranted optimism.
Director Drake Doremus and the cast avoid hyperbole. Jealous questions are inevitable when the two reunite after months apart, but (initially, at least) they are underplayed, with just enough said and unsaid to create invisible layers between the two.
This indie drama starts off as a sexy little date movie, but once the lovers have been separated it grows steadily more complicated and mature. — Chicago Reader
The music of Paul Simon’s “Graceland” flows through “Like Crazy,” and comments on it as well. This wise and beautiful little film is about two lovers falling from a state of grace. — Wall Street Journal
LIKE CRAZY plays one show only, 7 p.m., Thursday, MARCH 8, at the Empire Theatres Studio 10, 325 Prince Street, Sydney. Tickets $11, students $7.
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