Freud’s Last Session (2023)

Description

It’s September 1939, and England has declared war on Germany. The father of ‘psychoanalysis’, Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), a recent escapee with his daughter (Nina Kolomiitseva) from the Nazi regime, receives a visit from the formidable Oxford Don C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode), a former atheist who is now a devout Christian.
Sparking a debate with the younger man about the damage that unquestioned belief may bring, Freud’s mortality, and what Lewis believes comes after death, fuels their discussion, as the two men clash and question each other about science, faith, love, the human condition, and what divides – and could possibly unite – the aspirations of the mind and the needs of the soul, interweaving the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and fantasy in a story that bursts from the confines of Freud’s study, and delves into the deeper realms of both men’s psyche.