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Unconscious

The Times
The Times

15, 108 mins

Intriguing and satisfying Unconscious is a comedy set in 1913 Barcelona, which proves that Pedro Almodóvar isn’t Spain’s only playful director. The clues to the disappearance of a Freud-worshipping psychiatrist lie in four patient histories that his pregnant wife (Leonor Watling) and her uptight, psychiatrist brother-in-law (Luis Tosar) use in their investigation.

At turns broad and subtle, Joaquín Oristrell’s entertaining period romp entertainingly intertwines and mocks all the main Freudian hang-ups while Watling and Tosar make amusing psychoanalytical sleuths. And the film looks gorgeous — it’s not often you see farce played amid Art Nouveau dresses and Gaudiesque architecture.

IAN JOHNS

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