Freud: The Secret Passion
Freud: The Secret Passion

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- 72/100 based on 3,160 votes
  • Released: 1962
  • Runtime: 140 mins
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  • Studio: Bavaria Film
  • Genres: Drama

This pseudo biographical movie depicts five years from 1885 on in the life of the Czech-Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients, because they believe they're just simulating to gain attention. But Freud learns to use hypnosis to find out the reasons for the psychosis. His main patient is a young woman who refuses to drink water and is plagued repeatedly by the same nightmare.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Freud: The Secret Passion:

Montgomery Clift
Susannah York
Larry Parks
Susan Kohner
Eileen Herlie
Fernand Ledoux

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This pseudo biographical movie depicts five years from 1885 on in the life of the Czech-Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients, because they believe they're just simulating to gain attention. But Freud learns to use hypnosis to find out the reasons for the psychosis. His main patient is a young woman who refuses to drink water and is plagued repeatedly by the same nightmare.

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New Yorker - 7/10 by Richard BrodyWhile in different hands (Orson Welles's, for instance) these radical themes could have inspired more hallucinatory, probing, and inward images, Huston nonetheless evokes an apt sense of wonder, admiration, and awe.
User Review - 10/10 by Chiek EWhat a disturbing, mysterious and revealting Movie. A Psychedelic Journey into the the Dark Alleys of our Inner Mind. Sigmund Freud was a Anti-Hero fighting the Demons in the Unconscious of the People and himself like a Dark Wizard fight the Evil in Surrealistic Dreams. He is perfect portraied by Montgomery Clift. The Music is Awesome.
User Review - 10/10 by Orlok WThrilling, well acted, disturbing and surprising.
User Review - 8/10 by Tapani MThis was a good film and nice presentation of the ideas of Freud. Interesting is that Jean-Paul Sartre wrote first versions of script to this film. That's why film has some flavour of existentialism. Clift was great and Houston too - as allways.
User Review - 8/10 by Rosa SThe idea of making a film about Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the legendary founder of psychoanalysis, is not immediately attractive. The film is a great drama, but closet drama, in which most of the action takes place within the mind. The question is how to translate this action into a viable script that would produce a film from which audiences would not flee? Film makers discovered three ways to make the tragicomedy of Freud's heroic years filmworthy. First, they depict Freud thinking to himself as he stalks around Vienna at night, in top hat and overcoat. This technique of dramatizing historic though processes led them to have Montgomery Clift, who portrays Freud, do a great deal of staring. What Freud does relatively well is depict a brilliant man's search--even though his discoveries, like Charcot's treatments of hysterics, come a bit too easily and too casually. However, for anyone eager to establish a useful timetable of early psychoanalysis, a good biography remains indispensable...
User Review - 8/10 by Art SJohn Huston may have enjoyed the challenge of putting Freud's theories (not his life, exactly) on screen, given the direct parallel between repression of sexual thoughts by the superego and repression of the same by the Hays Office censors. Surely, he also smirked when he put Monty Clift into the lead, knowing that the actor suffered great torment over his homosexuality (leading to emotional and alcoholic problems that troubled this production). Indeed, Huston himself voices Freud's inner thoughts on screen in occasional narration, suggesting his role in directing/dominating Clift. Somehow, despite being all talk talk talk (therapy), the film mostly succeeds and is fairly gripping and noir-ish when Freud faces his own internal conflicts in a dark dream (not unlike Hitch's Dali sequence in Spellbound or Bergman's Wild Strawberries scene). Susannah York's ongoing somatoform problems, Larry Parks' kindly but less brave attempts to treat them, and Eric Portman's dastardly (but secretive) supervision of Freud's early work are all pieces of the puzzle - but all roads lead to his relationships with his parents (of course). For me, it is hard to know how much the audience of the day was able to fill in the gaps of Freud's theories from what is onscreen but the more you know, the more you may see (notwithstanding the schematicity necessary in all film). Not the travesty it could have been and in fact consistently absorbing.
User Review - 8/10 by Even TAlthough it gives a rather simple and compressed insight to the early days of Freuds life, it still comes out as a well crafted and interesting drama with more than enough plot development to keep your eyes on the screen.
User Review - 6/10 by Ricardo MOra burocrático, ora didático demais. Serve como introdução para quem depois quiser se aprofundar nas teorias freudianas expostas no filme. Funciona também como um melodrama.
User Review - 6/10 by Simon TDespite a tortured performance by Clift and a characteristically atmospheric score by Jerry Goldsmith, this very talky biopic remains uninvolving and prosaic. The occasional Bergmanesque dream sequences only highlight the weaknesses of Huston's direction.
User Review - 6/10 by Tara HI can see that as a portrait of Freud, this may be flawed. But it's still a very interesting film.

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