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...unsteady pastiche takes its place. For instance, Sigmund Freud (Sir Alec Guinness) pops up from time to time as Benjamin's mystical mentor, constantly reminding him of his breaches in psychiatric practice as well as his own unstable state of mind. Freud's witty, satirical comments do not ring true, though; instead, they remind us of Humphrey Bogart's advice to Woody Allen throughout Play It Again, Sam. Similar takeoffs from other films dot the rest of Lovesick as well, including Moore's sequences of drunkenness that mirror those in Arthur two years...
Lovesick comes across as a patchwork portrayal of a mid-life crisis, and all the allusions to psychological theories serve only to distract attention from the equally unfocused action. Director-writer Marshall Brickman tried too hard, and too obviously, to keep the film constantly hilarious with devices like Freud's commentary and Benjamin's exotic fantasies. But these devices end up annoying the viewer because they don't fit smoothly into the plot...
...Lovesick, which opens on Feb. 18, Moore is a middle-aged Manhattan psychiatrist who falls in love with a nubile patient and finds happiness under the ironic eyes of Sigmund Freud's fantasy-ghost (Alec Guinness). The film was written and directed by Marshall Brickman, who collaborated with Woody Allen on the screenplays of Sleeper, Annie Hall and Manhattan, and it has many of the funny, arch touches of Allen's best pictures. The early scenes, particularly, in which a motley group of patients pass through Moore's office, are hilarious, knowing satire at its best...
...simply as a playwright but as a thinker and philosopher, an anchor in early twentieth-century thought. Through detailed analysis of O'Neill's most important plays, rather than elaborate biography, Berlin skillfully presents the themes and doctrines of O'Neill's works and those he shares with Freud, Marx, Ibsen and other contemporaries...
...twins change no more than their surroundings. They remain steadfastly childlike. After their parents' death, both sleep in their double bed, platonically, utterly innocent of Freud or of any sense of guilt or impropriety. Their naivete is secured through solitude. News of the outside world comes, if at all, as a whisper. The local paper headlines the huge salmon caught, after a three-hour struggle, in a nearby pool, and then mentions in passing: "Allies enter Berlin-Hitler dead in Bunker-Mussolini killed by Partisans." News of atomic bombs over Japan a few months later gives the twins identical...