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FREUD'S LAST SESSION Movie Trailer - Plot synopsis: 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.



directed by Matt Brown

starring Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries, Jodi Balfour, Padraic Delaney, Stephen Campbell Moore, Rhys Mannion, George Andrew-Clarke, Orla Brady, Gary Buckley, Tarek Bishara, Jeremy Northam

release date December 22, 2023 (in select theaters, NY and LA, Expands to follow)
Transcript
00:00 (dramatic music)
00:01 - Professor Lewis.
00:02 - Dr. Freud.
00:03 - I've given you up for lost.
00:05 Yoffie is my personal assistant.
00:07 - Really?
00:08 - Well, if a patient is calm,
00:09 Yoffie always stretches out at my feet.
00:12 But if a patient is agitated,
00:14 Yoffie stands at my side.
00:16 - What should I make of his running away at the sight of me?
00:18 - Ah, well, he's also a fanatic about punctuality.
00:21 - Well, you have a wonderful home.
00:25 - My daughter, Anna,
00:26 tried her best to replicate our home in Vienna.
00:29 - Forgive me, but why would you come here to see me
00:31 if you disagree so passionately with my views?
00:34 - To make you realize that you're wrong.
00:36 (laughing)
00:37 - Well done.
00:38 Good.
00:40 - You've insisted all your life
00:41 that the very concept of God is ludicrous.
00:43 - Yes.
00:44 Why someone of your supreme intellect
00:46 would suddenly abandon truth
00:48 and then embrace a ludicrous dream, an insidious lie?
00:52 - Well, I wholeheartedly disagree.
00:54 - Well, of course you disagree.
00:55 You have to disagree.
00:56 Otherwise the entire structure of your childish faith
00:58 will collapse into a rubble.
01:00 - Why does religion make room for science?
01:02 Because science refuses to make room for religion.
01:04 - Oh, please, you're breaking my heart.
01:06 Because they hide behind their ignorance.
01:08 You hide behind your ignorance.
01:10 - I think that you're afraid to feel emotions at all.
01:12 - Is that your final diagnosis?
01:14 Fascinating.
01:15 - I don't know.
01:16 - You don't know?
01:17 Well, finally, finally, finally, we're making progress.
01:21 - You lie to yourself,
01:24 thinking that you can control death
01:27 the way you control your world
01:28 and your daughter.
01:29 - Anna's dedicated to the science.
01:32 - Is she seeing someone?
01:34 - She has no time for relationships.
01:36 - I'm worried about my father.
01:37 He has no one.
01:38 - There must be someone.
01:39 - Me.
01:40 - That's my girl.
01:41 - Truth is, you're terrified.
01:44 - We're all terrified.
01:45 See, you bury your doubts.
01:47 You bury your memories of the war.
01:50 At the core of your being.
01:52 We're all cowards before death.
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