A psychoanalyst helps a patient to achieve his ambitions.
Resonating Surfaces is triple portrait, of a city, a woman and an attitude to life. For the personal story of Suely Rolnik, who is a Brazilian psychoanalyst currently living in São Paulo, involves the Brazilian dictatorship of the sixties as well as the Parisian intellectual climate surrounding Deleuze and Guattari in the seventies. The film is woven through by different themes: the other and the relation to otherness, the connection between body and power, the voice and, ultimately, the micropolitics of desire and of resistance.
"Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question of whether it is worth it to live as a couple. The conclusions are fun, unpredictable and very human. After ending a ten-year marriage, Carlos and Susana try to fall in love with other people without success. As the days go by, Carlos realizes that without Susana he is unable to do many things, including distinguishing cilantro from parsley.
Arthur Turner's bored housewife Mildred seeks psychiatric help from Dr. Alan Coles who also has his own emotional problems to solve.
Nightclub entertainer Jean Clery discovers too late that the 'baby' he agreed to take care of is a wild, shapely sex kitten.
Michel, a psycho-analyst, falls asleep while listening to his patient Olga, a kleptomaniac and a sexual pervert, tell him how she likes her husband beating her. When he wakes up, he finds Olga having been choked to death. He now has to deal with a body, with Olga's rich husband who thinks she stole money from him, and with all his patients' insanity that haunts him.
A psychoanalyst learns to have an illness and as a consequence he decides to quit his job. All his patients get together to find a way to make him feel better.
Mariano is a psychologist who must fulfill community service after losing a lawsuit by a traffic accident. He is forced to provide therapeutic support to Alfredo, a policeman depressed over his wife cheating on him. Mariano is then accidentally involved in a double homicide investigation being conducted by Alfredo.
Juliette Binochen tähdittämä lämminhenkinen komedia esittää kertoo toisilleen tuntemattomista new yorkilaispsykiatri Henrystä ja pariisilaistanssija Beatricestä, jotka vaihtavat keskenään asuntoja. Henry odottaa Pariisin vilkasta kulttuurielämää ja ennen kaikkea kaipaamaansa irrottautumista onnettomista ja valittavista asiakkaistaan. Henry joutuu kuitenkin karistelemaan Beatricen entisiä kosijoita pariisilaisasunnon ovelta ja palaa kaikessa hiljaisuudessa takaisin New Yorkiin huomatakseen ettei mikään ole entisellään. Hänen kotivastaanotoltaan saapuvat asiakkaat näyttävät onnellisilta ja jopa hänen koiransa on onnellisempi. Henry tahtoo tietää Beatricen onnellisuuden salaisuuden ja varaa ajan omalle sohvalleen.
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.
Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that’s all talk and no sex.