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Unconscious (2007)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:23
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: A comedy that tackles outrageous subjects (pornography, transvestism, bisexuality and drug abuse) with both grace and mischievous glee.
Theatrical Release:Dec 29, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Joaquín Oristrell's UNCONSCIOUS is a a very funny romantic farce set in the supposedly austere psychiatric society of 1913 Barcelona. León Pardo (Alex Brendemühl) is a psychiatrist who suddenly... [More]
Starring: Leonor Watling, Luis Tosar, Alex Brendemuhl, Mercedes Sampietro
Director: Joaquin Oristrell
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Reviews for Unconscious
Oristrell stages funny, madcap scenes around bondage, cross-dressing and incest.
05/03/07
The film is sustained effortlessly by the charismatic Watling and Tosar, who are among Spain's most popular movie stars.
04/12/07
Top CriticLaboring in the wide shadow of Almodóvar and lacking much in the way of visual distinction, Unconscious compensates with its cast’s full-tilt commitment to rip-snorting farce.
04/12/07
[Billy] Wilder would have loved this razor-timed, feather-light comedy set in sexually repressed 1913 Spain.
03/22/07
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.
02/13/07
When it is good it is very, very good, and when it's not it's mediocre.
02/13/07
Everything you always wanted to know about sex, and then some. A bawdy, early Woody Allen-esque slapstick comedy!
02/09/07
Film is ultimately unsure of what it wants to say about modernity, psychoanalysis and all it liberates.
02/09/07
The comedy is too broad, lacking the subtlety that the film's high-brow intentions require.
02/09/07
Top CriticThe Freudian farce Unconscious is paced so breathlessly that it keeps you panting to keep up with each new plot twist.
02/09/07
Top CriticEven with nothing more redeeming than a lot of good one-liners, Unconscious has a charm that your ego, superego and id can all enjoy.
02/09/07
Are the Spanish the only ones these days able to make movie comedies that are smart, sexy, wacky and graceful all at once?
02/08/07
Top CriticThe 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.
02/06/07
Top CriticThe film is so opulently and noisily aestheticized it gives the illusion of being smarter than it is, though it benefits from some endearing performances.
01/24/07
one of the most visually stunning and original movies to come along in a while.
01/11/07
Spanish writer/director Joaquin Oristell brings 2006 to a mostly delightful close with Unconscious, a clever and sweetly risqué period farce brimming with frothy charm and tongue-in-cheek wit.
12/29/06
[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.
12/29/06
Top CriticIf necessary, just see it twice: Read it the first time, watch it the second.
12/07/06
With a little more sex and a little more comedy, this one could have really been something.
10/07/06
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