Freud: The Secret Passion
Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston
December 19, 2014 - January 11, 2015
Jean-Paul Sartre was the original screenwriter on Huston’s fascinating, profoundly strange Sigmund Freud biopic, a sort of cross between a psychological drama and an expressionist horror movie, featuring a subtle, melancholic central performance by Montgomery Clift.
Jean-Paul Sartre was the original screenwriter on Huston’s fascinating, profoundly strange Sigmund Freud biopic. (His last draft, written before the two parted ways, would have made for an eight-hour film.) The final product, something like a cross between a psychological drama and an expressionist horror movie, was Huston’s first film to deal directly with psychoanalysis since his wartime documentary Let There Be Light, and he depicts the talking cure alternately as a decadent luxury and a kind of mystical rite. Ultimately, the film belongs to Montgomery Clift, whose subtle, melancholic turn as Freud was his penultimate screen performance.
Title: FREUD ¥ Pers: CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ¥ Year: 1962 ¥ Dir: HUSON, JOHN ¥ Ref: FRE023AA ¥ Credit: [ THE KOBAL COLLECTION / UNIVERSAL ]
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