The Son (2022)
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"The Son" is an intimate and powerful drama directed by filmmaker Florian Zeller ("My Father"). The film stars Laura Dern, Hugh Jackman, and Vanessa Kirby, who deliver emotionally gripping and engaging performances.The movie plot revolves around Peter (Hugh Jackman) and Kate (Laura Dern), a couple facing the dilemma of dealing with their teenage son's disorder. The film is a sensitive and moving exploration of how a family's life can be affected when one of its members faces mental and emotional challenges.It is a movie that will touch your heart and leave you moved by the emotions it evokes. It is a powerful and honest portrait of what it means to be a family and how love can help overcome any obstacle.
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Peter has his busy life with new partner Beth and their baby thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas.
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The Father
The most powerful movie of the awards season, nominated for both the Oscar and the Golden Globe, 'The Father' does not follow the basic formula of stories about Alzheimer's Disease - such as 'Simply Alice' and 'Ella & John'. Directed, written and based on Florian Zeller's play, the feature film follows the routine of an elderly man (Anthony Hopkins) who is beginning to have his memory affected by the degenerative disease. In the middle of this, the protagonist's daughter (Olivia Colman from 'The Favourite') enters, who must deal with this new unstable moment of her father. It is a smart and daring film, which plays with temporality and the notion of things around. We do not see the degeneration of this man's memory from afar, as if it were a zoo. Quite the contrary. Zeller, with a clever and original script, puts the viewer in the mind of this man, with all his confusions and weaknesses. Hopkins ('The Silence of the Lambs') is spectacular, in one of his best performances in two decades. He swallows the movie, takes it for himself and gains ownership. It's hard not to shed a few tears. Great movie.
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