Club Rating: 3.3
A story of
seduction, betrayal, and loss. After
being dismissed from yet another position as a lady’s companion, Minna Bernays
sheepishly moves in with her older sister to help run the household and take
care of Martha’s six children while Martha’s husband, Sigmund Freud, is
refining a set of psychological theories.
Inspired by the supposed affair between Sigmund Freud and his
sister-in-law, Freud’s Mistress combines the glamor of high-society Vienna and
the squalor and scandal of the servant class.
A lot of discussion
was around the roles of the women and men - the men wanting something they
couldn't have, the woman being convenient.
The lack of morals put some off but, this exists today that there are
women who have a price an are ok with turning a blind eye to what their
husbands are doing.