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Unconscious
Original Title
Inconscientes- Director: Joaquín Oristrell
- Writer: Dominic Harari; Joaquín Oristrell
- Producer: Mariela Besuievski; Denise Booth
CGiii Comment
The production values are fantastic.
The gimmicky edits are not only lazy but intensely annoying.
And, it's nowhere near being as funny as it thinks it is...none of the actors possess the required...timing...
The jokes become labored slapstick...and the whole film descends into a ridiculous farce...the transvestite ball is disastrous - in concept and execution.
A thoroughly mismanaged project.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Barcelona, 1913. Alma is perhaps one of the most modern women of her day.Her husband, Dr. Leon Pardo, is a psychiatrist. This summer, he visited Vienna and became a follower of the revolutionary Dr. Sigmund Freud and his advanced theories about hysteria and sexuality. It all starts the afternoon Alma comes home and finds her husband in tears, about to disappear from her life and everyone else's. Giving no more explanation than a few incoherent mumbles, Leon runs off, leaving Alma alone and about to give birth. Salvador is Alma's brother-in-law and a psychiatrist as well. He is much more conservative man than Leon, is deeply in love with Alma. The only clue they have is a manuscript about hysteria and female sexuality based on four patients: An actress with a persecution complex; a psychotic woman who tried to murder her husband; a woman with a serious crisis concerning her sexual identity; a stranger who has discovered a terrible secret about her past.
Cast & Characters
Leonor Watling as Alma;
Luis Tosar as Salvador;
Mercedes Sampietro as Sra. Mingarro;
Juanjo Puigcorbe as Dr. Mira, Alma's father;
Alex Brendemuhl as Dr. Leon Pardo;
Nuria Prims as Olivia;
Ana Rayo as Tortola;
Jose Adell;
Anna Maria E. Albors;
Pepa Arenos;
Toni Arteaga;
Susana Bas;
Dolo Beltran;
Miquel Bordoy;
Santiago Castro Fuiza