Unconscious
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Actor: Horst Krause, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Mercedes Sampietro, Rosa Mara Sard, Walter KreyeDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Liberation Ent
Movie Reviews of Unconscious
Movie Review: Free Association
Summary: 4 Stars
Spanish movie `Unconscious' has a vintage screwball appeal that hits you instantly from the beginning. At the start we are given a narrated newsreel that transports us to news of the turn of the century. We go through newly invented crossword puzzles, the drug ecstasy, and bras. Soon we're firmly planted in Barcelona, Spain in that same era and are taken to the new world of psychoanalysis.
We first come upon the household of Dr. Leon (Alex Brendemuhl), a psychiatrist, who has been missing for days. He is especially missed by his pregnant wife, Alma (Leonor Watling), and his sister, Olivia. Taking a book he has written on the clinical study he has done on four hysterical women, both of them work with Olivia's husband, Salvatore (Luis Tosar), to find clues to where he's vanished. Hijinks quickly develops as their investigation sends them to a brothel and a hotel for a transvestite ball. Aside from the main plot, Olivia's father, is a wealthy patron, one that Salvatore finds difficult to impress and makes Olivia's psychological idiosyncrasies surface with his mere presence.
All the characters have psychological quirks that manifest themselves in odd ways. Their behavior is so compulsive. Several times Olivia bursts into Salvatore's gymnasium in the old days when they emulated the Greeks and men exercised naked. In one scene, Olivia becomes tense and shouts she has hysterical paralysis, but Salvatore objects that hysterical paralysis has no physical symptoms. "I am hysterical and I am paralyzed!" she shrieks. The comedic pace is great in this fun little film. Supplementing the humor is Olivia's housekeeper, Lee Mingarow, who's a wisecracking alcoholic who won't surrender her key to the liquor cabinet.
`Unconscious' plays homage to the birth of psychoanalysis even as it pokes fun at it. In the extras, aptly titled "Analysis," American psychologist, Dr. Shafranske gives a warm but heartfelt diagnosis of the finer points in the movie we hardly knew to take seriously at all. Although rated R for all the "taboo" material, 'Unconscious' surely draws from the past by giving us a comedy with the look and feel of films some of us can remember, only they're on the tip of our tongue.
Summary of Unconscious
This whimsical period comedy questions all taboos. Called a ?delightful bedroom farce in the spirit of early Pedro Almodovar?, this Freudian who-dunnit won Best Comedy at the HBO Comedy Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.Similar DVD Movies
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