His latest feature, dark comedy ‘Therapy Done Right,’ which his company Kenya Films produced, is having a special screening at San Sebastian before it streams Oct. 16 on Netflix The premise of Argentina’s Ricardo Darin’s latest feature, “Therapy Done Right” (Lo dejamos acá”), world premiering at the San Sebastian Festival, is deceptively simple: A pragmatic psychoanalyst loses faith in conventional methods and starts pushing the boundaries with his patients. Everything seems to be going well until a writer (played by Diego Peretti), struggling with creative block, walks into his office. The dark comedy, which Darin’s Kenya Films produced, is having a special screening at the fest before it streams worldwide Oct. 16 on Netflix.
He tapped Hernán Goldfrid, who directed him on “Thesis on a Homicide,” to helm the feature. Darin and Goldfrid spoke to Variety at the tony Maria Cristina Hotel in San Sebastián: Ricardo, you play the psychoanalyst who rejects an award at the onset, stating that Argentina has the largest number of psychoanalysts in the world and yet the percentage of Argentineans with some form of mental health issue has doubled. Yes, and I think it has something to do with the mix of cultures that shaped Argentina – Italians, Spaniards, Jews, Arabs, Germans… – really, a bit of everything.
And I think that’s part of where it comes from. Argentina also embraced psychoanalysis a long time ago, and it’s worked for us. In many ways, it’s worked really well.
Everyone has mental health issues. A lot of people around the world do – they just don’t realize it. They think there’s something else causing it.
I think it’s worth clarifying that, because otherwise it might give the impression that Argentinians are the only ones with mental health problems. But I also know there are more psychoanalysts in Argentina. There are a lot of psychoanalysts compared to other countries.
Because people have been drawn to studying it at university. Argentina has some very good universities for psychology and sociology. Hernán Goldfrid: I think it has a lot to do with what Ricardo was just saying.
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