ADIEU LACAN

Starring David Patrick Kelly & Ismenia Mendes

A young woman Seriema, who is trying to understand why her path to motherhood has reached an unbearable impasse, travels to Paris to do psychoanalysis with the maverick French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.

“...at last psychoanalysis has reached the cinema.”
— marco antonio coutinho jorge, corpo freudiano do rio de janeiro
 
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SYNOPSIS

“With realistic acumen and artistic expertise, ADIEU LACAN portrays the struggles of a young woman, Seriema, who is trying to understand why her path to motherhood has reached an unbearable impasse. Following two miscarriages and the possible loss of her marriage, Seriema travels to Paris in 1972 to undergo psychoanalytic treatment with the maverick French analyst, Jacques Lacan. Her analysis is an attempt to help her to disentangle the enigma of her question: why has motherhood become a seeming impossibility?

Inspired by the story of Betty Milan, a Brazilian psychoanalyst and writer, it follows closely her own actual psychoanalysis with Lacan. Based on her play “Goodbye, Doctor” and her novel “Lacan’s Parrot,” in which Milan recounts her analytic work, ADIEU LACAN offers an insightful and accurate account of an actual psychoanalytic cure.”

- Mavis Himes, Psychoanalyst and author of "The Power of Names." 

 
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Director

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Cast & Crew

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Specifications

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Prior to the film’s general release we are screening the film online for select clinical associations as well as for other types of groups and associations, including at universities, with a minimum group of 20 people. If you are part of such an association or group and would like to host such a screening, then fill out the form below and we will be in touch soon.

 
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“A gem of a film; in my opinion a true masterpiece that so gently, subtly and accurately portrays an analytic treatment, and more specifically a treatment that proceeds along the lines of a Lacanian cure.”
— Mavis Himes, Psychoanalyst and author of "The Power of Names."
“Freud thought a film could never transmit what happens in an analysis...but I am quite sure if Freud saw this film he would fall in love with it... at last psychoanalysis has reached the cinema.”
— Marco Antonio Cortinho Jorge, Corpo Freudiano do Rio de Janeiro
“A very meaningful film. Great representation of an analysis brought to the screen.”
— Eliana Rodrigues Pereira Mendes | Brazil
“The film is born immediately as a classic and from now on it will be absolutely necessary for people in training to see the film.”
— Mario Eduardo Costa Pereira, Corpo Freudiano do Rio de Janeiro

ADIEU LACAN
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