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- 2004
- First Run Films
- 1 h 32 m
- 2004
- First Run Films
- 1 h 32 m
Summary This fictionalized documentary explores the tricky intimacy between psychoanalysts and their patients. Empathy interweaves a fictional narrative, documentary interviews, screen tests and a parodied TV documentary of the analyst's favorite piece of furniture -- the Eames Chair.
- 2004
- First Run Films
- 1 h 32 m
- 2004
- First Run Films
- 1 h 32 m
Empathy
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Summary This fictionalized documentary explores the tricky intimacy between psychoanalysts and their patients. Empathy interweaves a fictional narrative, documentary interviews, screen tests and a parodied TV documentary of the analyst's favorite piece of furniture -- the Eames Chair.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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90% Positive
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10% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
70
90% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
10% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Meta-documentary to the end, Empathy takes its leave by pretending to spy on one patient with his ear to the closed door, eavesdropping on another patient. How did watching the movie make me feel? Interested, amused, and um, empathetic.
Siegel calls it a talking-heads film about the talking cure, and that pretty well sums it up. The nonfiction scenes are most interesting, and could have easily sustained the whole picture.
Often fascinating.
The director's seriousness and intelligence are evident, but so is her satisfaction in displaying them, and the movie has a self-indulgent, undisciplined tone that nearly obscures its provocative ideas.
I don't mean to demean it; it's smart, inventive and well-crafted. But as a feature film, it's a novelty item at best.
Despite its entertaining and insightful dialogue, can also be a bore.
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Production Company
Three Legged Cat Productions
Release Date Jan 21, 2004
Duration 1 h 32 m
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