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Entertainment Weekly has released this exclusive trailer!

“I consider what people tell me far less interesting than what they choose not to tell me.”

With these words, Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins, one of the most prolific actors of his age, transforms into Sigmund Freud, one of the most prolific thinkers of his.

Hopkins stars as the founder of psychoanalysis in Freud’s Last Session, for which EW has an exclusive look at the first trailer. Scheduled for a Dec. 22 theatrical release, the film shows Freud approaching the end of his life. His “last session” is an encounter with the revered author of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis, played by Matthew Goode. (Coincidentally, Hopkins played Lewis in 1993’s Shadowlands.)

While the movie is not based on a true story, the imaginary encounter takes its characters seriously and places them in London, where Freud moved just prior to the outbreak of the war.

The pair of icons find themselves in a fierce debate over the existence of God as the world around them hurtles toward World War II. The ongoing debate forces them to explore personal relationships of the past and present, including Lewis’ time serving during World War I.

Hopkins may be the most revered actor to bring the complicated psychoanalyst to the big screen, though there have been plenty of excellent portrayals of Freud, such as Viggo Mortensen in A Dangerous Method and Montgomery Clift in the John Huston-directed Freud.

The movie is based on a play by Mark St. Germain, which was itself based on the book The Question of God by Armand Nicholi. St. Germain wrote the script for the film, and it was directed by Matt Brown (The Man Who Knew Infinity).

Watch EW’s exclusive trailer reveal in the video above.  ⬆️

 

Meg Thomson, producer of ‘Freud’s Last Session’ posted this new picture on Instagram –

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Information from Deadline –

Sony Pictures Classics has firmed up release plans for its drama Freud’s Last Session, starring Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode, which charts the relationship between psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and author C.S. Lewis. Based on the stage play by Mark St. Germain, who wrote the script, the film opens in theaters in New York and L.A. December 22, with an expansion to follow in January.

Sony Picture Classics has shared this new promo still of Matthew Goode in ‘Freud’s Last Session’.

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Details below are from AFI Fest

World Premiere

London, 1939. On the eve of the Second World War, the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), hosts Oxford don and committed Christian C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode) at his Hampstead home. Lewis, who would later author “The Chronicles of Narnia,” had recently written a minor fantasy novel that lightly spoofed the great doctor from Vienna and is sheepishly apologetic about it. Freud finds Lewis’ firm faith in a higher being unpersuasive at best, and prefers instead to explore the unexamined corners in Lewis’ life: his relationships to his late mother and his estranged father, his PTSD following service in the Great War, and his unusual relationship with his live-in companion, Janie Moore (Orla Brady), the mother of a fallen comrade. But then Freud, too, is tuning out things in his life: the need for his daughter Anna (Liv Lisa Fries) to live her life authentically, the seriousness of his cancer and worsening drug dependency, and the outbreak of war on the radio news. Directed by Matt Brown (THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY), Hopkins and Goode deliver crafty and moving performances as two of the 20th century’s great minds, whose intellectual sparring demonstrates both men’s formidable strengths and emotional vulnerabilities. –Todd Hitchcock

Screenings

October 27, 5:00 p.m.

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Details

Director: Matthew Brown

Screenwriter: Mark St. Germain

Cast/Featuring: Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode

Running Time (minutes): 118

Link to buy tickets – https://fest.afi.com/2023/special-screenings-2023/freuds-last-session/