I lasted forty-five minutes with this one. The premise was intriguing, and the semi-low score could easily be attributed to people finding a slow-pace talkie boring, or people on either side of the theist/atheist aisle being offended. As an atheist, who was brought up Christian, and who enjoys debates on religiosity between intelligent opponents, this seemed right up my alley. And I do like Anthony Hopkins.…
September 3, 1939. The world is on the brink. A monumental session with two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century over the future of mankind and the existence of God.
On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.
Top Cast
Anthony Hopkins
Sigmund Freud
Matthew Goode
C. S. Lewis
Liv Lisa Fries
Anna Freud
Jodi Balfour
Dorothy Burlingham
Jeremy Northam
Ernest Jones
Stephen Campbell Moore
J. R. R. Tolkien
Orla Brady
Janie Moore
David Shields
Weldon
Tarek Bishara
Jacob Freud
George Andrew-Clarke
Paddy Moore
Gary Buckley
Albert Lewis
Pádraic Delaney
Warren Lewis
Rhys Mannion
Young C. S. Lewis
Anna Amalie Blomeyer
Ilsa
Cara Christie
Clerk
Ian Dillon
Inkling (uncredited)
Reviews
Near the end of his life in 1939, Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins) held one last session at his London home after fleeing the encroaching Nazi oppression in his native Vienna. At that time, just as the German blitzkrieg against Poland was beginning, Freud is said to have met with an Oxford scholar, believed to be author and theologian C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode), in a lengthy session in which the duo discussed a…
Though there is no evidence that this meeting ever actually happened, it does make for quite an intriguing premise. Renowned, but ailing, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (Sir Anthony Hopkins) invites Oxford University professor C.S. "Jack" Lewis (Matthew Goode) for a conversation. The latter man is late which irks his host, especially when his daughter Anna (Liv Lisa Fries) has to leave him to go to work and he is…
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What is Freud's Last Session about?
On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting…
When was Freud's Last Session released?
Freud's Last Session was released in 2023.
What genres does Freud's Last Session belong to?
Freud's Last Session is categorised as Drama.
Who stars in Freud's Last Session?
The cast of Freud's Last Session includes Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries, Jodi Balfour, Jeremy Northam.