ComingSoon is excited to debut the Adieu Lacan trailer for Passion River Films’ drama. Releasing May 10 on video on demand and digital, the film stars David Patrick Kelly and Ismenia Mendes.
“Adieu Lacan tells the story of a young woman’s struggle to understand why her own path to motherhood has reached an unbearable impasse. Jacques Lacan, the controversial French psychoanalyst who is widely recognized as one of the most important intellectuals of the 20th Century, is portrayed by David Patrick Kelly (John Wick, Twin Peaks), who profoundly illuminates the psychoanalyst’s passion for his work,” says the official synopsis. “Ismenia Mendes (Orange Is the New Black) plays Seriema, the character based on author Betty Milan, whose youth and adherence to the truth of her own experience as a young woman make the encounter between analyst and patient a tempestuous one.”
Check out the Adieu Lacan trailer below:
“Lacan compared the process of psychoanalysis to the maieutic process that Socrates practiced, stating he knew nothing other than that each of us must give birth to our own knowledge,” says director Richard C. Ledes. “Maieutic comes from the Greek meaning ‘pertaining to midwifery.’ We can say that in Adieu Lacan the character of Seriema must first give birth to her own subjectivity in order to pursue her desire to give birth to a child.”
Ledes (Fred Won’t Move Out) also wrote the script for the film, which is based on the play Goodbye Doctor and the novel Lacan’s Parrot by Brazilian psychoanalyst and writer Betty Milan.
