When Nietzsche Wept
by Pinchas Perry
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Actor: Armand Assante, Ben Cross, Jamie Elman, Katheryn Winnick, Rachel O'MearaDirector: Pinchas Perry
Brand: FIRST LOOK HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-04
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: First Look Pictures
DVD Reviews of When Nietzsche Wept
DVD Review: QUALITY AND IMAGINATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA
Summary: 4 Stars
At first I was confused why this movie has received so many negative reviews and upon contemplation see that it is a definite aquired taste. It is an independant film in every sense of the word. I love independant films when the director goes out on a limb and does not follow previously established formulas. That is indeed what this film encompasses.
This is a daring interpretation of 2 people who came to become very important in the world and psychoanalysis as we know it. The film expertly displays the period in which it takes place down to the scenery and lovely costumes. The acting is unique but once it grabs you you see that the whole style of the film is done with an intent purpose.
The relationship that develops between Breur and Nietzsche is the basis of the film and I find the acting on both parts outstanding, especially Armand Assante. He lights up the screen with a presence that makes you feel you are watching Nietsche himself.
The film incorporates actual events and the director's interpretation of dreams both characters had. Some may find these silly but they are not. They are displayed otherworldly as dreams are. I must admit I loved seeing how psychoanalysis/therapy originated. The history of mental health and how it is treated is fascinating.
For me this film had a totally engrossing story expertly told with emotion and originality. The acting is excellent as well. I highly recommend this film. Even if after viewing you find it was not to your taste it is worth viewing for it is an expertly done independant film. When done so well it will definitely be controversial in its impact as this is.
Watch and form your own opinion.
DVD Review: 45 minutes was enough for me
Summary: 1 Stars
The actress playing Lou Salome acts as a modern American instead of a woman from the late 1800s as forward thinking, independent that she is suppose to be with a bad Russian accent. Anna O./Bertha has PINK hair, and even after 45 min, all you know of her is that she is beautiful & is psychotic with delusions & you have no idea why Dr. Breuer falls in love with her other then being physically attracted to her. Freud is young & has some interesting ideas to help his friend, Dr. Breuer, but nothing more then any other average insightful person. I did enjoy Armand's (he was the only thing worth watching & Ben decent 2nd, the actress playing Dr. Breuer's wife did a great job doing what she could with her limited role) & Ben Cross's acting.
The screenplay & directing was terrible. The pace was at least interesting & quick. Many films have succeeded in doing period pieces that seem real, this feels more like a H.S. play. I could predict the next scenes easily or the ideas better then a play-by-numbers bad Hollywood predictable film.
In the beginning, in order for Dr. Breuer, M.D. to get close to Nietzsche to treat his suicidal tendencies & despair w/o Nietzche knowing, he simply applied ego stroking and, I swear, calling him CHICKEN! His idea is to treat Nietzche is by using the guise of treating his intense headaches physically & saying he'll trade his care for Nietzche's philosophical help for his own despair (which he did have in great amounts about his own life choices). When Nietzche declined saying he was only a writer & has never applied his knowledge in such a way, Dr. Breuer actually replies, "I understand if you don't think you can handle it..." I have only taken a few college psychology courses, but I think most people would easily see & understood the rudimentary ways to manipulate people.
The rest of the movie is just as easy to understand including the dream sequences. Dr. Breuer has a dream with a clock in the sky going very fast, that he literally says he realizes he's peddling a boat to go closer to his death & then cries out he wants to go backwards. If you can't understand that is an obvious meaning that he's afraid of death (which he told Nietzsche he was plainly in the previous scene), this film & even Oprah might be too much for you.
I admit I've never read Nietzsche, but was going to start with this, but I wasn't sure if this was a parody or what. The only common theme I felt was women/love are evil and mean nothing but lust & distraction which should be eradicated from life.
The only thing that baffles me is why Anna/Bertha had PINK hair, unless it was suppose to be a red hair dye job gone horribly wrong w/a low budget that they couldn't fix.
There are some scenes uploaded & of course, trailers on youtube.
DVD Review: Positive example of men's work
Summary: 4 Stars
"Grief is healed when it is witnessed by a caring other" and to access those lost memories, Nietzsche tells Freud's friend that lying down can make it happen. A fun introduction on the value introspection and the examined life. DVD Review: Good enough... Armand does a great job!
Summary: 4 Stars
First of all, this movie was probably not meant as a deep study on Nietzsche, or psychoanalysis for that matter. It was probably not produced to vindicate any highly sophisticated theory about the meaning of Nietzsche's or Freud's ideas. (Note that I have not read Yalom's book, so I can't compare...) But it does a fairly good job at representing what one familiar with Nietzsche's biography and works easily imagines Nietzsche might have been like. On that account, Armand Assante does an incredible job--one that I would not have expected from him after his role in "Strip-Tease" (my last memory of him). His performance alone makes this movie worth watching at least once for anyone who has been intimate enough with the name of Nietzsche. 3 stars.
Second of all, this movie gets an extra star from me because this is the first "serious" fictional representation I have seen on film (and found, miraculously, at Blockbuster!) of the kind of topic it involves--let alone, the first "serious" english-speaking representation of Nietzsche as a central character. The movie makes a good faith attempt at really being about the feverish and even destabilizing intellectual-emotional encounters that (let's assume or pretend) gave rise to psychoanalysis, or that we associate with Nietzsche. Other than that, it is true that this movie often seems, in terms of cinematic nuts and bolts, poorly put together. But original, daring projects of its kind are still to be encouraged. Only then perhaps could they multiply, evolve, and "progress." Until then, we should not hold them to unrealistic standards.
DVD Review: Terrible
Summary: 1 Stars
The acting is flat, the production awful, and the movie painful. Nietzsche and his ideas are interpreted at times obliquely and at times completely incorrectly. This movie was so bad that I was unable to finish it. I regret the rental and I wish I could have my money back. That is the first time I have ever felt that way about any movie.
Description of When Nietzsche Wept
Based on the bestselling award-winning novel by Irvin Yalom "When Nietzsche Wept" tells the story of obsession a drama of love fate and will that formed the basis of modern psychoanalysis. Friedrich Nietzsche Sigmund Freud Dr. Josef Breuer Louise (Lou) von Salome and Anna O - these compelling characters cross paths when Breuer and Freud agree to treat Nietzsche; a sick poor and unknown philosopher. The story follows the dramatic lives of two of the most important and enigmatic men who would change the course of Europe s intellectual history and the intriguing women who inspired and ruined them. System Requirements:Run Time: 104 minutes Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?PG-13 UPC:?687797121295General DVDs
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