The Son

Florian Zeller, France, UK, 2022o

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The life of successful New York lawyer Peter with his new partner and their baby is thrown off track when Peter's ex-wife rings his doorbell unexpectedly because she doesn't know what to do with their son: the 17-year-old is no longer the sunshine of his childhood years and wanders the streets alone instead of going to school. Peter takes the boy in and believes he can do everything to get him back on the road to success. But does he have the size to acknowledge that his son is different from him?

Playwright and screenwriter Florian Zeller expands his masterful directorial debut The Father into the second part of a planned trilogy about family relationships. He tells the story of a successful New York lawyer and runaway husband who has started over with a younger wife and baby when the ex-wife rings unexpectedly because she doesn't know what to do with the teenage son they share. The father takes the self-tormenting boy and notorious truant into his second family. From this exposition, Zeller develops a heartbreaking chronicle of paternal caring and guilty consciences wreaking havoc with the best of intentions. In short: the epitome of a human drama for which there are recognisable reasons and no real culprits. Fathers and mothers will hardly get through this film without a handkerchief; Anglo-Saxon critics, who like to see parental effort rewarded, are sore at the finale. But one exposes oneself to this cleansing of emotions with profit.

Andreas Furler

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Hugh Jackman & Laura Dern Break Down 'The Son' Scene with Director Florian Zeller
/ Vanity Fair
en / 11/29/2022 / 07‘46‘‘

«The Son»: Die Familientrilogie von Florian Zeller
/ SRF
de / 2/8/2023 / 03‘46‘‘

Hugh Jackman und Laura Dern über «The Son»
/ SRF
en / 2/7/2023 / 04‘54‘‘

Movie Datao

Genre
Drama
Running time
123 Min.
Original language
English
Ratings
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ØYour rating6.6/10
IMDB user:
6.5 (17625)
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7.0 (7)
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Hugh JackmanPeter
Zen McGrathNicholas
Laura DernKate
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«The Son»: Die Familientrilogie von Florian Zeller
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