Mjeteconer Just perfect...

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Gabriel Alejandro Quinche Velandia Its not a tremendous film, a must see, of a picture at his own, When Nitszche Wept is very good driven style of fan fiction, that manage to get us near to a lot of Niche, and Freud, concepts -but in reality is only near, because as lots of book-film adaptations, it takes a to much of the director's point of view-, it gets it right in some moments and is not a waste of time at all, but it suffers from his flaws, the nature of art, is specific to each category it belongs, this is most like and homage, and want us to remember very important things, and don't care about being very technical with the acting, the passing, or the writing itself, it's made great with the cameos that it have, and the good vibe the producers have toward those beautiful mind that they were, but maybe fails, to stand alone as film,

Karl-Capek I found this movie to be delightful, but then, I have been reading Nietzsche for over three decades. The movie pretends that Nietzsche knew Breuer (who did know Freud) and that Breuer knew Salome. If you do not know who these people were, then the movie will be confusing. It also pretends that Salome goes to Breuer for help in curing Nietzsche of a psycho analytical problem. This latter issue speaks to the fact that Nietzsche did go insane, but not because he was crazy, but due to syphilis. In the movie there is a brief nod to the fact that Nietzsche had his final nervous breakdown when he saw a man beating a horse and he rushed to save it.What I found wonderful in the movie was the period eye candy (sets and costumes), although the cinephile will catch lots of "technical flaws" where things appear in scenes that did not exist at the time period portrayed. The other truly superb thing about this movie, and again an area where knowing Nietzsche helps, is the basic plot where Nietzsche teaches Breuer, and likewise Freud, psychoanalysis! The movie accurately portrays the foundational philosophy of Nietzsche and reveals him as the incredible genius that he was. This movie is not for film buffs or historians, but rather fans of Freud and Nietzsche who are able to suspend disbelief and enjoy a "what if".

epse1 Fine production values, a dry sense of humor throughout, literate script, decent casting (Assante transcends his usual "heroics" and plays a crumbling soul nicely and Cross is always workmanlike and solid), and, slyly, the film (as the book did) finally gives Nietzsche credit for inventing modern psychoanalysis (since Freud, et al, in the field stole from his works outrageously and lavishly, without assigning him the proper credit for his startlingly original insights into the world-historical human, all too human capacity for self-deception).A tough work for an adaptation, but this movie succeeds where something like "Freud" dismally collapsed into timid clichés.Nietzsche would have gotten many a devilish laugh out of this work's visual craftiness.And appreciated being treated, not as a cartoon "Overman" idol, but a struggling, flawed, tragic-comically-profound human."Ecce Homo", his anti-"autobiography" warned those who followed not to take him too seriously.If this film stimulates a few people to pick up his "Joyful Wisdom" (La Gaya Scienza) or "Dawn", it will have made its honorable point.Yalom was, in essence, giving Nietszche a posthumous brother's embrace for his loneliness and struggle and brilliance and scorn and lack of recognition while he lived.This movie does the same.To a guy, who, friendless and abandoned and ignored through much of his writing life, still affirmed the Universe and humanity in the words: "Man would rather have the Void for a purpose than be void of purpose." -F.N.Worth a viewing.

highlama Knowing nothing of the book, and based solely on the DVD cover and description I expected a disappointingly shallow, titillating pseudo-intellectual romp through the fields of pretense. But the portrayal of the rare humanity of these characters as they confronted their obsessions and limitations drew me into rapt attention at the next plot development. Perhaps I'm just shallow and easily amused, but this story gave a fairly good look at a decent man, Joseph Breuer, and his struggle to really feel his humanity. This is an important story, one rarely told because how many story tellers have been through the fire of transformation to live for real? Where do you find an audience willing to sit through something they're desperately trying to avoid themselves? Maybe package it as a shallow and titillating pseudo-intellectual romp. Sure there were times when I saw through the weave of the story, for a moment I even saw Assante speaking lines rather than Nietzsche talking but for the most part this story was to me a real story of people really evolving right before our very eyes. That's not something you're going to see every day.