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When Nietzsche Wept
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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 Europes intellectual history and the intriguing women who inspired and ruined them.
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- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Director : Pinchas Perry
- Media Format : Color, Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Widescreen, Dolby
- Run time : 1 hour and 45 minutes
- Release date : December 4, 2007
- Actors : Armand Assante, Andreas Beckett, Ben Cross, Jamie Elman, Ayana Haviv
- Studio : First Look Pictures
- ASIN : B000VDDDUU
- Writers : Irvin D. Yalom, Pinchas Perry
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #131,178 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #94,067 in DVD
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I won't spoil it by discussing Nietzsche's end of it but it is worth buying. It is well acted and seeing Armande Assante and Ben Cross together has made for a combination that I feel will make this movie a classic in modern times. The acting is powerful here, and it is more than enterntaining. It explores depth of self that I have yet to see any film delve into. This was somewhat of a daring project for the producer and director to undertake, and it worked.
On the back of the package it talks of love and redemption, but it is the friendship of these two men that makes this movie so powerful as Assante and Cross have portrayed them, and I would love to see this pair team up together again on screen. This movie is packed with wonderful acting and great production/directing. Andreas Beckett was also wonderful in this film and should get some recognition for it! It is well worth watching and I encourage you to get it. It does give a look into the beginnings of modern psychology, but it is much more than that. Anyone can enjoy this...If you liked the movie "The Shift" with Dr. Wayne Dyer, you'll like this one too simply for the questions it dares to explore.
Freud's and Nietzsche's ideas both come out of Armand Assante's mouth, all the while he is chewing his way through one scene or another as per usual, so unless you're familiar with both men, you won't know which is which. I went back and familiarized myself with the major players: Breuer, Freud, Nietzsche, Salome, Ree, and Pappenheim. And while all those people actually existed, the director decided it would be fun to put one real life counterpart's ideas or actions in another character's mouth again and again, not just Freud and Nietzsche, so much so that I had to take a page from Yoda and unlearn what I had learned via the film.
The lookalike characters are confusing too. At various points I thought I was watching either Teresa Russell, or Polly Walker, or Lambert Wilson, all of whom could have pulled off the muddled script better than their B-grade knockoffs.
Assante's elucidation of Nietzsche's theme of eternal recurrence is OK, but only because it is lifted directly from Nietzsche's writing, as are most of Assante's good lines. Like I said: fictionalized docudrama. I have wanted to see Nietzsche's life depicted on film so much so that I was willing to overlook other people's opinions.
Nietzsche's short life was so extreme, involved so many bizarre episodes and contradictions in later vs earlier works, that I'm not sure it is filmable in a believable fashion, even though those episodes are true.
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Lingua inglese e sottotitoli inglesi e spagnoli. Non mi risulta mai uscito in Italia.
Attenzione però, il film è importato direttamente dall'America (Anche se è scritto "edizione Germania") perchè è in NTSC ed è visibile come Regione 1 (e non 2!). La prima volta l'ho dovuto vedere con il computer (è incompatibile sui lettori DVD normali) ma poi ho risolto il problema facendo una copia con Any DVD (che ha simulato la regione 2) + Clone DVD.