- Film Review
- Reviewed By Stella Papamichael
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3 out of 5
A psychiatrist is forced to examine his own conscience in this hypnotic thriller from director Steven Soderbergh. Jude Law plays the doctor treating depressive Rooney Mara (the "Girl" in David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), whose Wall Street trader husband (Channing Tatum) has recently returned home after a spell in prison for insider dealing. The couple's reunion should be a happy event, but instead it marks the beginning of a descent into madness for Mara, partly as a result of the medication prescribed to her by Law on the advice of a fellow doctor (a stern Catherine Zeta-Jones). Mara's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic under the drug's influence, but when events take a more tragic turn, Law cannot accept that he, too, might be at fault. Soderbergh highlights the flaws of psychiatry and the fatal self-absorption of the doctor/patient relationship in an intelligently crafted story, which is briskly paced and highly suspenseful - until a crude and puerile payoff in the third act. A tease, on many levels.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Dr Jonathan Banks
- Jude Law
- Emily Taylor
- Rooney Mara
- Dr Victoria Siebert
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Martin Taylor
- Channing Tatum
- Deidre Banks
- Vinessa Shaw
- Carl Millbank
- David Costabile
- Eileen Spicer
- Polly Draper
- Augustin
- Vladami Versailles
- Joan
- Michelle Vergara Moore
Crew
- Director
- Steven Soderbergh
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