Academy Award Winner Florian Zeller brings his sophomore film, The Son, to the 2022 Venice Film Festival. Below are initial social responses to the newest film starring Laura Dern, Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath and Anthony Hopkins.
#TheSon's compassionate storytelling deeply affected me.
— Ren Geekness @ Venizia 79🇮🇹 (@RenGeekness) September 7, 2022
Intimate & tension-filled with sublime performances as Hugh Jackman delivers his most vulnerable work since Logan.
A layered tale on depression's corrosive effect, generational trauma & parental struggles #Venezia79 pic.twitter.com/b3anJnRahb
#TheSon strives for profound in this sentimental FatherFatherSonSon melodrama that misses the mark. Jackman is ~acting!~ but the film lays the generational trauma theme on thick and places this story from a perspective that is hard to sympathise with! #Venezia79 pic.twitter.com/49Pl3C3hMI
— Connor Lightbody @ Venice Film Festival🇮🇹 (@Calbody) September 7, 2022
#TheSon, the extraordinary prequel to The Father, examines the damage that errant fathers can do to their sons and how that can be passed on to the next generation. Hugh Jackman delivers a powerhouse performance, with an equally stellar supporting cast. Bring tissues. #Venezia79 pic.twitter.com/BqGCx9lJny
— Tom O'Brien @ Venezia79 (@thomaseobrien) September 7, 2022
The Total Film review of Florian Zeller's follow-up to The Father #TheSon https://t.co/rwZE4dlW8L
— Total Film (@totalfilm) September 7, 2022
"Hugh Jackman here excels in a role gradually and cruelly stripped of its glibness; the remarkable Zen McGrath, taut and stifled and unsettled in his skin, isn’t just his opposite number but his suppressed mirror image." @GuyLodge on the wrenching THE SON: https://t.co/ge1NfP848f
— Film of the Week (@filmoftheweek_) September 7, 2022
‘The Son’ Review: Hugh Jackman Ably Anchors A Devastating, But Ultimately Dull Domestic Drama [Venice] https://t.co/s6Fz44tXUF pic.twitter.com/odXY5LFUI1
— The Playlist (@ThePlaylistNews) September 7, 2022
The Son review – laceratingly painful drama of familial fear and loathing https://t.co/udEZ4qnnzJ
— Guardian culture (@guardianculture) September 7, 2022
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