Film Reviews

Melancholia: A Review

Steven F. Walker explores the threads of archetypal symbolism, world destruction, and personal depression woven through Lars Von Trier's luminous Melancholia.


Reflections on "The Tree of Life"

Jungian analyst Diana Heritage explores the ways that Terrence Malick's film evokes that which we yearn to know--but most likely never will.


Gale's Answer to Jung

Italian psychiatrist Massimo Lanzaro explores conceptions of grief in this review of The Life of David Gale, a film by Alan Parker.

A Psychoanalytic Look at "Lars and the Real Girl"

The 2007 film Lars and the Real Girl serves as a fine introduction to the enduring insights of British psychologist D.W. Winnicott, in this review by psychoanalytic psychologist Margaret Jordan.

A View of Mystic River

Analyst and writer Gretchen Heyer explores the complicated nature of grief in this review of Clint Eastwood's film Mystic River.