Un touching, profound film that explodes in the bowels. The Sonin competition with the Venice Film Festival, is the new film by Florian Zellerawarded with the Oscar for The Father. As in the previous title, the French director manages to show i feelings of the protagonists’ unconsciousthe most hidden ones. Now her gaze focuses on a boy’s open wounds seventeen years old who is unable to heal them, despite the fact that the family tries in every way to help him.
The family consists of Peter (Hugh Jackman), from ex-wife Kate Laura Dern and from new partner Beth (Vanessa Kirby). As in The Father Zeller investigates deep family ties.
The Son: the plot
The divorce of the parents was dazed Nicholasplayed by surprise Zen McGrath, the teenager is no longer able to live with the mother he hates, hasn’t attended school for months and has no friends. The father he takes it home with him and the new partner Beth, with whom she has just had a son. It seems that Nicolas is recovering. Actually its phase depressive continues unabated: can’t find a balance and blames the parents for the situation. Peter and Kate they are worrying and don’t know how to support the child. Peter looks for remedies by looking back on his past and how he would have liked his father (Anthony Hopkins) had taken care of him. She looks for a way, but she can’t find it.
The Son it has the strength to capture repressed feelings
The film is based on the play Les Fils by Zeller himself. The setting from Paris goes to New York. “This is a universal story – says the director – basically I didn’t want to tell a French, American or British story. What we see in The Son it can happen to anyone ».
“Zeller is a master in communicating the unspoken, the feelings that are stationed in the unconscious“, he claims Vanessa Kirby, in one of his most intense interpretations. “The film manages to capture what is repressed.” Laura, Hugh and Zen interpret the feelings more hidden and Zeller magically captures them and then returns them to the viewer.
Hugh Jackman as Peter. (Photo Press Office)
The best performance of Hugh Jackman
All the performers are extraordinary in The Son. «I strongly wanted this role – he affirms Jackmanwhich we will probably find among the candidates for the Oscar 2023 and among the claimants to the Volpi Cup – when I read the script I tried one sensation very strange: felt like a fire and a deep desire to do this part. It was the right moment of my life ». After playing him Jackman felt more vulnerable, “A vulnerability that I shared with my children,” he says. Also of Zen McGrath we will hear about it: it has all the credentials to conquer the Mastroianni Prize.
Hugh Jackma, Laura Dern and Zen McGrath. (Press office photo)
And what about Anthony Hopkins? “When I knew I was going to do a scene with him I was excited and nervous – says the actor of Australia – Anthony is a movie giant and a source of inspiration, as well as being a person full of life ».
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