• Director(s)

    Matt Brown

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    14/06/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    109m

  • Cast

    Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries

Film

Freud's Last Session

moderate sex references, injury detail, drug misuse, suicide references

Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis debate the existence of God as World War II begins, in a fictional British drama which contains discussions of sex in the context of psychoanalysis and occasional grisly scenes of illness and war.…

Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis debate the existence of God as World War II begins, in a fictional British drama which contains discussions of sex in the context of psychoanalysis and occasional grisly scenes of illness and war.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

injury detail

theme

  • Director(s)

    Matt Brown

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    14/06/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    109m

  • Cast

    Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries

One or more of the releases in this collection was cut.

moderate sex references, injury detail, drug misuse, suicide references
Classified Date:
24/05/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Vertigo Releasing Ltd
violence
There are brief scenes of warfare during the First World War, including explosions and gunfire in the trenches and No Man's Land, as well as references to wartime death tolls in news reports.
threat and horror
A man experiences what appears to be a panic attack in a confined space as he shelters from a possible air raid. Characters are at risk of death and injury on the First World War battlefield. Flashback scenes show a frightened woman being taken prisoner for a brief period by the Gestapo, but she is released unharmed.
language
There is mild bad language ('bloody', 'bastard'), as well as milder terms which include 'God'.
sex
There are references to sex in the context of psychoanalysis, including mention of 'latent perversions', castration, unhealthy attachments to parental figures and 'sado-masochistic' fantasies. Characters discuss moral issues around sexuality and sexual orientation, and a woman talks about a sexual fantasy she has in moderate, but not graphic, detail. A couple are briefly seen caressing in bed together in a darkly lit fantasy sequence.
discrimination
A radio plays a section of Hitler's Reichstag speech, in which he threatens the 'annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe' and is met with cheers of 'Sieg Heil' from the audience; there are other references to Antisemitism as well as the persecution of Jews during this period in history. A man refers to mental patients as 'raving lunatics'.
drugs
A man adds morphine to glasses of whisky, in order to manage pain caused by cancer.
injury detail
A seriously ill man coughs blood into handkerchiefs and there is occasional sight of blood around his mouth and oral prosthetic in the context of his worsening health. Soldiers are shown with moderate bloody injuries in the aftermath of war violence.
theme
A man is living in pain with a form of terminal oral cancer. There are scenes of emotional upset as a man speaks about his rage at the untimely loss of his daughter and grandson to illness.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
suicide and self-harm
A man contemplates taking his own life to escape the pain of his terminal illness. There are other undetailed references to suicide and a woman is given a suicide pill for her to use in the event of being mistreated by Nazi forces; however, she does not take the pill.
moderate injury detail
Classified Date:
17/05/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Vertigo Releasing Ltd
Classified Date:
13/05/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Vertigo Releasing Ltd
Cuts:
This work had a compulsory cut made. A cut was required to remove a non-BBFC rating card. Cut made in accordance with BBFC policy.
Classified Date:
17/05/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Vertigo Releasing Ltd

  • Classified date

    24/05/2024

  • Language

    English