‘Freud’s Last Session’ teaser trailer with Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode: ‘We’re all cowards before death’ [WATCH]
Sony Pictures Classics has dropped the teaser trailer for the feature “Freud’s Last Session” starring two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode that imagines a daylong conversation between famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (Hopkins) and author C.S. Lewis (Goode) on September 3, 1939, two days after Hitler invaded Poland and three weeks before Freud’s death from cancer. Watch the trailer above.
As the film opens, the threat of German bombs rattles England, and Freud – seriously ill with the cancer that would soon take his life – has fled Nazi forces invading his homeland and brought his family from Vienna to London, where he’s visited by author and Oxford theologian Lewis. Lewis – whose “Chronicles of Narnia” books would later bring him worldwide acclaim – is an atheist turned devout Christian hoping to confront the Father of Psychoanalysis about the gap between science and religion and faith and logic, and how studying the mind may miss the path of the soul.
“Why would you come here to see me if you disagree so passionately with my views?” Freud asks Lewis early in the trailer.
“You’ve insisted all your life that the concept of God is ludicrous – clash between God and Satan,” Lewis responds.
“Yes,” Freud shoots back, “but I did not say whose side I was on.”
Through their colorful, sometimes contentious day-long debate, the two men work to see the other’s point of view as Britain enters the Second World War, Freud’s daughter Anna (Liv Lisa Fries) reconciles hard truths within herself and her own career as an analyst, and Freud faces his own morality. “At the core of your being, we’re all cowards before death,” he announces.
“Freud’s Last Session” is based on the stage play of the same name by Mark St. Germain – who co-wrote the film script along with director Matthew Brown – the film “explores questions we all face, sees in history a moment that echoes current conflicts, seeks to understand free will, and explores how two renowned 20th century intellectuals find connection within difference.”
The film will be released in theaters on December 17. Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 for “The Silence of the Lambs” and again in 2021 for “The Father.”
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