Freud's Last Session

2023 109 min ★ 6.6 Drama

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.

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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

Details

Director

Matt Brown

Screenplay

Matt Brown

Tagline

"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."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$1,697,993

Production

WestEnd Films, CAA Media Finance, 14 Sunset, LB Entertainment, Last Session Productions, Traveling Picture Show Company, M.Y.R.A. Entertainment, Subotica, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

Reviews

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Horseface

March 29, 2024

★ 2/10

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 ...

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Brent Marchant

April 29, 2024

★ 8/10

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 du...

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CinemaSerf

June 18, 2024

★ 6/10

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 w...