‘The Son’: Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern & Florian Zeller On Latest Chapter In “Spiritual Trilogy”
dealt with an elder’s struggle with dementia, while centers around a fractured family gripping to save their son from his battle with suicidal depression. The movie made its world premiere at Venice where it received a ten-minute standing ovation and continued on to the Toronto International Film Festival.“It’s not the same characters, not the same stories,” says the filmmaker.
“There’s some connections, some echoes, but these are stories that stand by themselves,” he told us in our TIFF studio. “The common thing about these stories is a way to explore how we deal with reality and pain,” he continued. As far asit explores “what it means for the family around him trying their best to help him, without having the keys to open the right doors.”
Zeller continues: “On this subject, mental illness, I felt that there was so much ignorance and shame and so much guilt around this, that I really wanted to face this story, not shy away from it, and to open a conversation about it. And I think a movie is the best way to build a mural in which we can watch ourselves, question ourselves, to understand a bit of who we are.
In the interview above, Hampton talks about the fate of big screen dramas while Jackman and Dern discuss Zeller’s process with getting the best from his actors.
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