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Unconscious (2006)

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 4

A comedy that tackles outrageous subjects (pornography, transvestism, bisexuality and drug abuse) with both grace and mischievous glee.

Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 2

A comedy that tackles outrageous subjects (pornography, transvestism, bisexuality and drug abuse) with both grace and mischievous glee.

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One man's identity makes for a difficult mystery to solve in this independent comedy drama from director Bradley Wigor. After a life-threatening accident, a man lies unconscious in a hospital bed, while police and doctors try to find out who he is. The mystery man's profile has been compared to a number of people recently reported missing and sought by the police. Things take a complicated turn when the injured man's particulars match up in different ways with six different men, leading to a

R, 1 hr. 34 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy

Directed By: Bradley Wigor

Written By: George Williams, Joaquin Oristrell, Teresa de Pelegri, Dominic Harari

In Theaters: Nov 24, 2006 Wide

On DVD: May 5, 2009

Regent Releasing

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Critic Reviews for Unconscious

All Critics (27) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (4) | DVD (1)

The film is sustained effortlessly by the charismatic Watling and Tosar, who are among Spain's most popular movie stars.

April 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

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The comedy is too broad, lacking the subtlety that the film's high-brow intentions require.

February 9, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Post

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V.A. Musetto

New York Post

Top Critic

The Freudian farce Unconscious is paced so breathlessly that it keeps you panting to keep up with each new plot twist.

February 9, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

Top Critic

Are the Spanish the only ones these days able to make movie comedies that are smart, sexy, wacky and graceful all at once?

February 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Newsday

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Gene Seymour

Newsday

Top Critic

The movie's message is clear: Freud's greatest contribution to society was not the idea that all little boys long to sleep with their mothers -- rather, it's the concept of the unconscious, a hidden place where our secret desires yearn to be free.

February 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Jennifer Drapkin

Village Voice

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[Director Joaquin] Oristrell's comedic sense only seems to succeed in spurts, and he often burdens the proceedings with a theatrical and contrived air that undermines the humor.

December 29, 2006 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Walter V. Addiego

San Francisco Chronicle

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Tackling an array of rather risque subjects in a disarmingly sweet fashion, ranging from cross-dressing to sado-masochism to incest, Unconscious explores everything you always wanted to know about sex, and more.

July 20, 2007 Full Review Source: EURWeb

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Kam Williams

EURWeb

Oristrell stages funny, madcap scenes around bondage, cross-dressing and incest.

May 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly

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Josh Bell

Las Vegas Weekly Source: Las Vegas Weekly

Laboring in the wide shadow of Almod�var and lacking much in the way of visual distinction, Unconscious compensates with its cast's full-tilt commitment to rip-snorting farce.

April 12, 2007 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly

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John Patterson

L.A. Weekly

[Billy] Wilder would have loved this razor-timed, feather-light comedy set in sexually repressed 1913 Spain.

March 22, 2007 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)

St. Paul Pioneer Press

Oristrell is a modern day Woody Allen, although with a better sense of rhythm and naughty buffoonery. You'll laugh from corners of your subconscious you didn't know you had.

February 13, 2007 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

When it is good it is very, very good, and when it's not it's mediocre.

February 13, 2007 Comment

Eric Lurio

Greenwich Village Gazette

Everything you always wanted to know about sex, and then some. A bawdy, early Woody Allen-esque slapstick comedy!

February 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Black Star News

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Kam Williams

Black Star News

Film is ultimately unsure of what it wants to say about modernity, psychoanalysis and all it liberates.

February 9, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Ken Fox

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Even with nothing more redeeming than a lot of good one-liners, Unconscious has a charm that your ego, superego and id can all enjoy.

February 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International

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Katey Rich

Film Journal International

The film is so opulently and noisily aestheticized it gives the illusion of being smarter than it is, though it benefits from some endearing performances.

January 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

one of the most visually stunning and original movies to come along in a while.

January 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews

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Ted Murphy

Murphy's Movie Reviews

Spanish writer/director Joaquin Oristell brings 2006 to a mostly delightful close with Unconscious, a clever and sweetly risqu� period farce brimming with frothy charm and tongue-in-cheek wit.

December 29, 2006 Comment

Timothy Knight

Reel.com

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In "Unconscious", it is 1913 when Alma(Leonor Watling), extremely pregnant, fears her husband, a psychologist, is missing or worse and goes to her brother-in-law, Salvador(Luis Tosar), also a psychologist, for help. But he has problems of his own, namely his wife, Olivia(Nuria Prims), is perpetually jealous of her

February 11, 2007

Walter M.

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Very funny Spanish movie set in Barcelona. Freud is coming to address a gathering of physcologists.

December 26, 2006

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