“Freud’s Last Session” Teaser Trailer, Featuring Matthew Goode as C.S. Lewis
Sony Pictures has released the first trailer for Freud’s Last Session, starring Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud and Matthew Goode as C.S. Lewis.
The film is based on a stage play by the same name, which itself was based on the book The Question of God by Armand Nicholi. The official synopsis reads:
On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds on the twentieth century, C.S. LEWIS and SIGMUND FREUD converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. FREUD’S LAST SESSION interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.
Interestingly, Hopkins portrayed C.S. Lewis in the 1993 film Shadowlands.
The film releases on December 22.
Looks like an interesting movie.
I am surprised that they call him Professor. It is inaccurate, if it is set in England; a senior lecturer or tutor was not called Professor unless he was the head of the whole department (eg Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon).
I can only assume they think the American viewers (who call all teachers beyond high school a professor) won’t understand.
It looks interesting in some respects. I’ll wait for someone else to report on it for me.
@coracle, I would just take that as being a necessary compromise for how to introduce the character on screen and still have the audience understand who he is. If they just went with “Mr Lewis” or “Jack” I don’t think many viewers would make the connection as to who it’s supposed to be, but if the characters on-screen called him “C.S. Lewis” everyone would think it bizarre that a normal person would use such a formal address in regular conversation. “Professor Lewis” therefore seems like the most efficient way to do this in dialogue.
It’s weird to me that the music in the trailer is trying to make it sound like a horror movie. I thought the play was more of a philosophical discourse kind of thing. LOL.
There’s a couple of early reviews online from the film’s world premiere last night – I’ve linked them on the forum if anyone is interested:
https://community.narniaweb.com/index.php/community/postid/348070/
Excited to check this one out in December!
@Col Klink, I notice that music too. But I think it is simply a way to market the movie. Yes, the colour tuning and camera angles – plus the heavy rain outside etc, makes it look intense. Maybe moody. But I assume it is not going to have jumpscares or terror feelings! It looks more to me like a thriller/drama. Seems to me that a discussion between two people may work very well on stage, but for a movie they needed to add the flashbacks, different settings and so on, to make it suit the cinematic adaptation. I didn’t see A Haunting in Venice because the trailer was 1000% more horror than this one! haha.
I have not seen the play, but I know it was put on by Clock and Spiel in Sydney Australia. (And put on elsewhere). I will be seeing this film hopefully. This Lewis is too young to have written the Narnia Chronicles. But perhaps Freud will draw out of him the image of the faun in a snowy wood holding parcels, that had been first in his mind at sixteen.
I hadn’t heard anything about this movie before today which is a bit surprising given the talent involved and the connected to C.S. Lewis. Looks intriguing!