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Unconscious(Inconscientes)

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Spain, Germany, Italy · 2004
Rated R · 1h 40m
Director Joaquín Oristrell
Starring Leonor Watling, Luis Tosar, Mercedes Sampietro, Juanjo Puigcorbé
Genre Comedy, Mystery, Romance

A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.

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60

Village Voice by

The movie's message is clear: Freud's greatest contribution to society was not the idea that all little boys long to sleep with their mothers--rather, it's the concept of the unconscious, a hidden place where our secret desires yearn to be free.

63

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

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.

70

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Unconscious is a ribald sex farce of considerable imagination and inspired wackiness and a meticulous period piece of the Art Nouveau era.

80

Empire by Patrick Peters

It may lack subtlety, but everything is beautifully designed and photographed, Watling and Tosar are superb and it's undeniably great fun.

70

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

If Unconscious consistently overplays its hand, its fusion of a Sherlock Holmes-style detective story (Alma is the master sleuth, and Salvador her Dr. Watson) with a delirious bedroom farce in the spirit of early Pedro Almodóvar is frequently very funny.

58

The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson

While the content is colorful and the actors seem up for the task, a flawed script and Oristrell's unemphatic direction let all the impact dribble away.

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