Anthony Hopkinsand Matthew Goode portray important 20th century figures in their latest movie.
Sony Pictures Classics has released the first trailer for 85-year-old Hopkins' latest movieFreud’s Last Session, which stars the two-timeAcademy Awardwinner as the famed 20th century neurologist Sigmund Freud.
Opposite Hopkins in the movie is Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game), who portraysChronicles of Narniaauthor C.S. Lewis in a film that imagines the two men meeting just before World War II breaks out in Europe to discuss their personal beliefs about the existence of God.
Matthew Goode as C.S. Lewis in ‘Freud’s Last Session’.Sony Pictures Classic
Sony Pictures Classic
An official synopsis for the movie describes that Freud, an atheist, and Lewis, a noted Christian author and scholar, “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,” the synopsis reads.
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Freud, who lived the final years of his life in the United Kingdom after fleeing Nazi Germany’s reign in Austria, is not known to have ever met Lewis, who worked atMagdalen College at Oxford Universityduring the time period depicted in the film.
Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud, Matthew Goode as C.S. Lewis in ‘Freud’s Last Session’.Sony Pictures Classic
The film is Hopkins' second of 2023. He also stars in the upcoming biopicOne Life, another drama set partially during the lead-up to World War II, in which the acclaimed actor portrays an English man credited with bringing hundreds of children from from then-Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia to England in the months before the war began.
Freud’s Last Sessionreleases in theaters in New York City and Los Angeles Dec. 22 with a larger theatrical release to follow.
source: people.com
