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Freud’s Last Session to have World Premiere at AFI Fest – 27th October

Details below are from AFI Fest

FREUD’S LAST SESSION

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/

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Freud’s Last Session

An extract from ‘Vents Magazine’

Why Is There So Much Excitement About Freud’s Last Session?

Known for working with Hollywood royalty such as Jeremy Irons and Stephen Fry, Director Matt Brown shouldn’t be too daunted to work with Anthony Hopkins, whose life’s work encompasses many of the movie world’s most treasured motion pictures.

However, the hype surrounding Freud’s Last Session is not only down to its incredible leading man and talented director, but also its promise as a likely Oscars contender. Variety wasted no time in reporting that the movie is one to watch as the Academy Awards season draws closer.

Meanwhile, Deadline revealed that Sony Classics has already purchased distribution rights for the feature, which will also star The Crown actor and Emmy nominee Matthew Goode, who is set to take on the role of Lewis, providing just the kind of mighty co-presence that a revered actor like Hopkins requires!

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Variety’s Oscar predictions

… and Matthew Goode is on their long list for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ in Freud’s Last Session – extract from Variety –

Oscars Predictions: Best Supporting Actor

AND THE PREDICTED NOMINEES ARE:

  1. Robert DeNiro – “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures)
  2. Ryan Gosling – “Barbie” (Warner Bros.)
  3. Robert Downey Jr. – “Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures)
  4. Charles Melton – “May December” (Netflix)
  5. John Magaro – “Past Lives” (A24)

NEXT IN LINE

  1. Glenn Howerton – “BlackBerry” (IFC Films)
  2. Chris Messina – “Air” (Amazon Studios)
  3. Matthew Goode – “Freud’s Last Session” (Sony Pictures Classics)
  4. Willem Dafoe – “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures)
  5. Matt Damon – “Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures)

 

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Freud’s Last Session – release date?

Northern Ireland World reported about some recent filming involving Matthew Goode for ‘Freud’s Last Session’.   Some extracts follow –

Whitehead Railway Museum was the recent setting for scenes from ‘Freud’s Last Session’.

Set on the eve of World War Two in 1939, the film sees Sigmund Freud (Sir Anthony) invite Belfast-born Christian author CS Lewis for a debate on the existence of God. Having taken up the invite, CS Lewis, played by Goode, was present at Whitehead – suitably dressed as a rural Oxfordshire station – in order to catch the train to see Freud.

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The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI) laid on a train of 100-year-old steam engine No. 461, which is usually on display at the museum, plus three heritage carriages and a luggage van.

The locomotive was out of steam but fitted with a steam machine, while the RPSI’s train rides steam engine No. 3BG was on hand to shunt the train up and down the siding as required. The train had to be filmed in three main positions:

  • Sitting stationary at the platform whilst passengers / evacuees embarked and disembarked;
  • Departing with CS Lewis aboard (in daylight);
  • Arriving back with CS Lewis having met Freud (in the dark).

The weather was bright and sunny for the daylight shoots, and calm for the filming after darkness fell. The work was completed by 10.30pm and a cheer went up from the cast and crew because this was the final sequence in the shoot.

Lisa Adair, RPSI general manager, said: “We are regularly in demand from film-makers because we can provide steam engines and vintage carriages. We are always pleased to be able to assist.

“We are told that Freud’s Last Session will be released around December, so we look forward to seeing the finished product in the cinema.”

We’ll wait for official confirmation about the release date but it looks like it might be earlier than we thought.

Full article here – Click here!