Westend Films has released the first photo of Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode Freud’s last sessionlike the legendary psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the writer and academic CS Lewis, before his own Chronicles of Narnia Fame.
Filming in Ireland is in the final stages.
Set on the eve of World War II, the film is about a meeting between Freud and Lewis at the psychoanalyst’s London home, where they debate the existence of God.
The film also explores Freud’s unique relationship with his daughter Anna, played by Liv Lisa Fries (Babylon Berlin, Hilde in love) and Lewis’ unconventional relationship with his best friend’s mother.
The film is directed by Matthew Brown (The man who knew infinity) and was written by Mark St. Germaine (The God Committee) with revisions by Brown, based on the play of the same name.
Producers are Alan Greisman (The bucket list), Rick Nicita (metal saw burr), Meg Thomson (tachycardia), Braun, Hannah Unfortunately (Blinded by the light) and Robert Stillman. Irish producers are Tristan Orpen Lynch and Aoife O’Sullivan of Subotica Productions (Aisha).
Other cast members Jodi Balfour (The crown for all mankind), Stephen Campbell Moore (The History Boys, Masters of the Air), Jeremy Northam (The Crown, Gosford Park) and Orla Brady (Star Trek: Picard, Rose plays Julie).
WestEnd Films and CAA Media Finance are overseeing the film’s sales.
As previously announced, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights for North America, Middle East, Turkey, India, Eastern Europe (excluding CIS) Asia (excluding China, Korea and Japan) and Latin America and worldwide airlines.
WestEnd has also signed deals for Australia (Sharmill Films), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Italy (Adler), Benelux (Just Entertainment), Portugal (NOS), Israel (United Kingdom) and Greece (Spentzos).
The film is an official Irish-British co-production produced with the support of Screen Ireland and the UK Global Screen Fund.
Source: Deadline
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