Freud invites iconic author C.S. Lewis to debate the existence of God. And his unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis' unconventional relationship with his best friend's mother.Freud invites iconic author C.S. Lewis to debate the existence of God. And his unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis' unconventional relationship with his best friend's mother.Freud invites iconic author C.S. Lewis to debate the existence of God. And his unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis' unconventional relationship with his best friend's mother.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Anna Amalie Blomeyer
- Ilsa
- (as Anna Blomeyer)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAnthony Hopkins had previously portrayed C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands (1993) 30 years prior to this film.
- GoofsSigmund Freud recalls to Anna Freud their previous meeting with Albert Einstein where Einstein says that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. Though this is a quotation often attributed to Albert Einstein, it more likely originates from Al-Anon and Narcotics Anonymous groups in the early 1980s.
- Quotes
J.R.R. Tolkien: Jack, when you read myths about gods that come to Earth and sacrifice themselves, their stories move you, so long as you read it anywhere but the Bible.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Project: Episode dated 19 April 2024 (2024)
- SoundtracksVariations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, 'Enigma' Variation 9: Nimrod
Composed by Edward Elgar
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Featured review
Think about it for a second: for whom was this movie made?
I saw this movie this afternoon - Saturday afternoon - and there were only three people in the hall. I was not surprised.
Freud's Last Session is part of a cottage movie genre, almost always taken from a Broadway play, where two-man shows are relatively common. The author puts two historical figures together in a room and lets them debate various important issues for close to two hours. Nixon/Frost is the one I remember offhand, but there have been others as well. In the theater - a small theater - I can see this working well. I'm not sure how it works as a movie, or more to the point: for whom it works. Movies, even modest ones like this, cost a LOT more to produce than plays. Can something like this recoup the investment?
Yes, the two actors give very fine performances. People go to see Shakespeare plays not to see what will happen to Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet. They already know before they enter the theater. They go to see how the actors will deliver the lines.
But here, unlike in Shakespeare, the lines are not particularly striking. Hopkins in particular did a great job of creating the character Freud, but he didn't have Shakespeare's words - or even, say, those of the playwright who wrote The Lion in Winter - to work with.
So I'm left with my initial question: how many people are going to pay to see Hopkins and Goode deliver their uninspired lines? And will that make enough ticket sales to at least break even on this movie?
I enjoyed it, yes, but I found that it was too much of the same thing for too long, and would have been happier if it had been shorter.
Freud's Last Session is part of a cottage movie genre, almost always taken from a Broadway play, where two-man shows are relatively common. The author puts two historical figures together in a room and lets them debate various important issues for close to two hours. Nixon/Frost is the one I remember offhand, but there have been others as well. In the theater - a small theater - I can see this working well. I'm not sure how it works as a movie, or more to the point: for whom it works. Movies, even modest ones like this, cost a LOT more to produce than plays. Can something like this recoup the investment?
Yes, the two actors give very fine performances. People go to see Shakespeare plays not to see what will happen to Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet. They already know before they enter the theater. They go to see how the actors will deliver the lines.
But here, unlike in Shakespeare, the lines are not particularly striking. Hopkins in particular did a great job of creating the character Freud, but he didn't have Shakespeare's words - or even, say, those of the playwright who wrote The Lion in Winter - to work with.
So I'm left with my initial question: how many people are going to pay to see Hopkins and Goode deliver their uninspired lines? And will that make enough ticket sales to at least break even on this movie?
I enjoyed it, yes, but I found that it was too much of the same thing for too long, and would have been happier if it had been shorter.
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- richard-1787
- Jan 21, 2024
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- Also known as
- La última sesión de Freud
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $906,283
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $45,590
- Dec 24, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $1,267,640
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Color
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