‘Freud’s Last Session’ Review: Film Adaptation and Its Discontents

‘Freud’s Last Session’ Review: Film Adaptation and Its Discontents

In “Freud’s Last Session,” when the Oxford academic C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode) arrives late to the London home of Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), Freud’s chow chow, Jofi, brushes him off. The dog, Freud explains, values punctuality. The men’s encounter — concocted for Mark St. Germain’s 2009 play of the same title — is imaginary, but … Read more