Long before she became a filmmaker, Mary Bronstein developed an interest in therapy and what they call “the talking cure.” Psychology is what she got her master’s in prior to attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; and in her second feature as a writer-director, the cryptically titled If I Had Legs I’d Kick You , Bronstein sets the story of her “emotional avatar” in a therapist’s office. There Linda ( Rose Byrne ) works as an absolutely burned-out psychoanalyst—and a woman who is also utterly convinced her own therapist down the hall (Conan O’Brien) despises her.

“I’m a big proponent of therapy, I believe in therapy, I’m in therapy,” Bronstein smiles when we catch up with her ahead of If I Had Legs ’ premiere at Fantastic Fest. “But I’ve been in and out of therapy since I was a yo

See Full Page