The superego gets bested by the id in Spanish director Joaquin Oristrell's curious period sex comedy, which mixes intellectual musings on psychoanalysis with vulgar guffaws of the basest sort.
Barcelona, 1913: As the city's psychiatric society prepares for a momentous visit from none other than the scandalous Dr. Sigmund Freud, a very pregnant Alma Pardo (Leonor Watling), daughter of the organization's director and a frequent translator for its foreign lecturers, boldly races into the men's gymnasium where her sister's husband, Dr. Salvador (Luis Tosar), is practicing his pugilistic skills, and breathlessly explains her predicament: Her husband, Dr. Leon Pa...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
108 mins