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Mistress America Going Backwards To Go Forwards That's Psychoanalysis

MISTRESS AMERICA
Going Backward To Go Forward
That’s Psychoanalysis

September 17, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s kooky and touching new film, Mistress America, gives us Brooke Cardenas (Greta Gerwig), a 30-year-old autodidact, full of life and ideas, but stuck. She can’t get her life off the ground. Brooke needs help, but help makes her feel small: “There’s nothing I don’t know about myself. That’s why I can’t …

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Going Backward To Go Forward
That’s Psychoanalysis

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“We come to Film and TV to find our hidden stories. If we look deeply into a character’s psyche, there is much to see about ourselves.”

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