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Cinema

Bravely shows that depressed people can be quite annoying: The Son reviewed

18 February 2023

9:00 AM

18 February 2023

9:00 AM

The Son

15, Nationwide

For my money – and lots of other people’s – Florian Zeller’s 2020 film The Father was pretty much a masterpiece. Oscar-winningly adapted from his own play by Zeller and Christopher Hampton, it plunged us into the fractured world of Anthony, an old man with dementia (as Oscar-winningly played by Anthony Hopkins).

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