Freud's Last Session Star Matthew Goode and Director Matthew Brown Interview
Freud’s Last Session,adapted from the playby Mark St. Germain, posits a fictional 1939 meeting between the renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and author C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode) in London shortly after Germany invaded Poland. Freud (Anthony Hopkins), dying of oral cancer, wanted to meet the Oxford professor famed for his religious beliefs. Freud was an unabashed atheist who mocked the concept of God as pure fiction manifested by foolish humans. Freud debates a nervous Lewis as England prepares for war and his obsessed daughter, Anna (Liv Lisa Fries), a prominent academic in the study of child psychology, desperately searches for morphine to please him....