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Our review of The Son: autopsy of malaise

2023-02-28T13:16:02.220Z


REVIEW – Florian Zeller's second feature film, without equaling "The Father", shines with its formal mastery. and offers Hugh Jackman, as an overwhelmed father, one of his finest roles.


After adapting his play

The Father

, where an old man, masterfully played by Anthony Hopkins, sinks into senescence observed from the inside, the playwright Florian Zeller continues his adventure in cinema.

With

The Son

, his second film, he once again confronts the family drama.

At 17, Nicholas (Zen McGrath, disturbing at will) is a teenager on the loose, apparently disturbed by the separation of his parents.

Overwhelmed by the situation, his mother (Laura Dern) accepts that he moves in with his father, Peter (Hugh Jackman, imperial of fragility in a most uncomfortable role), a brilliant lawyer who has moved back in with the young Beth (Vanessa Kirby), pregnant with her second son.

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A somewhat too perfect symbol of professional success, this father too busy with his work will try to face the severe nervous breakdown from which his son suffers, even if he...

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