THE SON QA at AFI Fest with Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Florian Zeller and More

Subscribe to AFI on YouTube: A postscreening conversation at AFI Fest 2022 with THE SON s writer, director Florian Zeller, actresses Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, cinematographer Ben Smithard, producer Iain Canning, and Daniel H. Gillison, Jr. , Chief Executive Officer of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Florian Zeller follows up his previous feature THE FATHER (AFI FEST 2020) with an affecting spiritual sequel adapted from his own stage play. Peter (Hugh Jackman) has a fraught relationship with his teenage son Nicholas (Zen McGrath) following a messy divorce, a new partner (Vanessa Kirby) and a brandnew baby. Unhappy living with his mother (Laura Dern) and suffering from severe depression, Nicholas pleads to live with his father. His intrusion into Peters happy home is a calamity. Nicholas dodges school for months and struggles to accept his fathers apparent marital bliss which begins to rupture. The complicated familys tense relationship comes to a