Inconscientes
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Inconscientes is a 2004
Spanish
period comedy
directed by Joaquín Oristrell
. It stars Leonor Watling
and Luis Tosar
. The plot follows the pregnant wife of a renowned Freudian psychiatrist who enlists the help of her admiring brother-in-law to uncover the elaborate mystery of why her husband ran away from home. The more she digs for the truth about her husband, the more she discovers the unexpected lies surrounding her brother-in-law, her father, her sister, and herself.
, Alma, who is nine-months pregnant, returns home one day finding her husband, Leon, an eminent psychiatrist, about to flee their home and his practice. He has come back from a session with Dr. Freud in Vienna
that has left him distraught. Left to have her baby alone, the witty and beautiful Alma enlists the help of her sister’s husband – also a psychiatrist - the dispassionate, repressed Salvador, to help her solve the mystery of Leon’s sudden departure. Ignoring his better judgment, Salvador agrees to help her, even though he sees it could be trouble for him with his prim, frigid wife, Olivia, Alma’s sister.
There is a sibling rivalry between Alma and Olivia that is shared by their husbands. Olivia is jealous of her feminist sister as the favorite of their father, Dr. Mira, the pompous chief of staff in the hospital where both Leon and Salvador have their practice. Helping her father, Alma serves as translator in a lecture by to Dr. Alzheimer – who is unable to remember anything.
The beautiful Alma is as free-spirited as Salvador is uptight. Helping her, Salvador quickly runs into trouble. After an accidental self hypnosis, he confesses to be deeply in love with Alma, and that he married her sister, the ostensibly sexually inhibited Olivia, only to be near her. Still under hypnosis, traumatized by comments made by his wife regarding the size of his member, he exposes himself in a public place and his father in law fires him from his job.
A trail of clues initially indicate that Leon’s disappearance may be connected to the concealment of embarrassing revelations about the sex life of the King of Spain, Alfonso XIII. Hints also led them to the back room of a barn that serves as a hide out for making pornographic films. They also visit a deranged woman in a mad house, a cross-dressing club and a high class bordello led by clues contained in Leon’s thesis: a detailed journal of his psychoanalytic sessions with four women he is treating for Freud-defined “hysteria”: a psychotic woman who tried to murder her husband; an actress with a persecution complex, a woman with a serious crisis concerning her sexual identity and a stranger who has discovered a terrible secret about her past.
Salvador and Alma investigation reveals a series of outrageous secrets. These include that Olivia has been living a secret life going to a transvestite club. She has a lesbian lover and plans to leave her husband. Alma’s alcoholic house keeper, the unsympathetic Sra. Mingarro, turned out to be Leo’s biological mother, the result of a torrid affair with Dr Mira, which makes Alma and Leon marriage an incestuous union. The sudden reappearance of Leon only complicated things further.
Eventually they all attend a distinguished gathering in honor of Dr. Freud, who has come to Barcelona to discourse on his new book, “Totem and Taboo.” As Leon attributes all of his problems to Dr. Freud theories on sexuality, he plans to kill him. However the fall of a big chandelier aborts the assassination attempt. Leon and Dr Mira died as a result of the accident with the chandelier. Olivia leaves for Paris where she wants to have a freer life with her lesbian lover. Alma gives birth to a bay boy. She realizes that she has falling in love with Salvador and they become a happy couple.
2004 in film
The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...
Spanish
Spain
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period comedy
Comedy
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directed by Joaquín Oristrell
Joaquín Oristrell
Joaquín Oristrell is a Catalan film director and screenwriter.He has written scripts to Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Fernando Colomo and others directors before his film debut in 1997 with -Selected filmography:*El próximo oriente *Va a ser que nadie es perfecto...
. It stars Leonor Watling
Leonor Watling
Leonor Elizabeth Ceballos Watling is an award-winning Spanish film actress and singer.-Early life:Watling was born in Madrid, Spain to a Spanish father and a British mother, and has three siblings, with whom she speaks English. Her father died when she was a teenager.When she was a child, she...
and Luis Tosar
Luis Tosar
Luis Tosar is a Galician actor and musician.-Biography:Born in Lugo, Galicia, Spain on 13th October 1971, he is best known internationally for his villain role in Miami Vice and the role in the upcoming horror film Flatmate, which is directed by Jaume Balagueró.-Selected filmography:*1998 Atilano...
. The plot follows the pregnant wife of a renowned Freudian psychiatrist who enlists the help of her admiring brother-in-law to uncover the elaborate mystery of why her husband ran away from home. The more she digs for the truth about her husband, the more she discovers the unexpected lies surrounding her brother-in-law, her father, her sister, and herself.
Plot
In 1913 BarcelonaBarcelona
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, Alma, who is nine-months pregnant, returns home one day finding her husband, Leon, an eminent psychiatrist, about to flee their home and his practice. He has come back from a session with Dr. Freud in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
that has left him distraught. Left to have her baby alone, the witty and beautiful Alma enlists the help of her sister’s husband – also a psychiatrist - the dispassionate, repressed Salvador, to help her solve the mystery of Leon’s sudden departure. Ignoring his better judgment, Salvador agrees to help her, even though he sees it could be trouble for him with his prim, frigid wife, Olivia, Alma’s sister.
There is a sibling rivalry between Alma and Olivia that is shared by their husbands. Olivia is jealous of her feminist sister as the favorite of their father, Dr. Mira, the pompous chief of staff in the hospital where both Leon and Salvador have their practice. Helping her father, Alma serves as translator in a lecture by to Dr. Alzheimer – who is unable to remember anything.
The beautiful Alma is as free-spirited as Salvador is uptight. Helping her, Salvador quickly runs into trouble. After an accidental self hypnosis, he confesses to be deeply in love with Alma, and that he married her sister, the ostensibly sexually inhibited Olivia, only to be near her. Still under hypnosis, traumatized by comments made by his wife regarding the size of his member, he exposes himself in a public place and his father in law fires him from his job.
A trail of clues initially indicate that Leon’s disappearance may be connected to the concealment of embarrassing revelations about the sex life of the King of Spain, Alfonso XIII. Hints also led them to the back room of a barn that serves as a hide out for making pornographic films. They also visit a deranged woman in a mad house, a cross-dressing club and a high class bordello led by clues contained in Leon’s thesis: a detailed journal of his psychoanalytic sessions with four women he is treating for Freud-defined “hysteria”: a psychotic woman who tried to murder her husband; an actress with a persecution complex, a woman with a serious crisis concerning her sexual identity and a stranger who has discovered a terrible secret about her past.
Salvador and Alma investigation reveals a series of outrageous secrets. These include that Olivia has been living a secret life going to a transvestite club. She has a lesbian lover and plans to leave her husband. Alma’s alcoholic house keeper, the unsympathetic Sra. Mingarro, turned out to be Leo’s biological mother, the result of a torrid affair with Dr Mira, which makes Alma and Leon marriage an incestuous union. The sudden reappearance of Leon only complicated things further.
Eventually they all attend a distinguished gathering in honor of Dr. Freud, who has come to Barcelona to discourse on his new book, “Totem and Taboo.” As Leon attributes all of his problems to Dr. Freud theories on sexuality, he plans to kill him. However the fall of a big chandelier aborts the assassination attempt. Leon and Dr Mira died as a result of the accident with the chandelier. Olivia leaves for Paris where she wants to have a freer life with her lesbian lover. Alma gives birth to a bay boy. She realizes that she has falling in love with Salvador and they become a happy couple.
Cast
- Leonor WatlingLeonor WatlingLeonor Elizabeth Ceballos Watling is an award-winning Spanish film actress and singer.-Early life:Watling was born in Madrid, Spain to a Spanish father and a British mother, and has three siblings, with whom she speaks English. Her father died when she was a teenager.When she was a child, she...
- Alma - Luis TosarLuis TosarLuis Tosar is a Galician actor and musician.-Biography:Born in Lugo, Galicia, Spain on 13th October 1971, he is best known internationally for his villain role in Miami Vice and the role in the upcoming horror film Flatmate, which is directed by Jaume Balagueró.-Selected filmography:*1998 Atilano...
– Salvador - Juanjo PuigcorbéJuanjo PuigcorbéJuanjo Puigcorbé is a Spanish actor. He has appeared in over 100 films and television shows since 1977. He starred in the 1993 film The Window Over the Way, which was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival....
- Dr. Mira - Núria Prims - Olivia
- Mercedes SampietroMercedes SampietroMercedes Sampietro is a Spanish actress.Her debut on stages was in 1979, and in cinema, seven years later, with Jaime Chávarri's A un dios desconocido...
- Sra. Mingarro - Alex Brendemühl - León
- Ana Rayo - Tórtola