“The Son” (2022) – “No love is greater than that of a father for his son.” – Dan Brown Author and playwright Florian Zeller burst onto the cinematic scene, and the grandest worldwide stages embraced “The Father” (2020), his poignant and distressing debut feature film. “The Father” garnered six Oscar nominations, and Anthony Hopkins and Zeller won the coveted, prized statues for Best Actor and Adapted Screenplay, respectively. (“The Father” was this critic’s #6 film of 2020.) Zeller (along with screenwriter Christopher Hampton) adapted his 2012 play, “Le Pere”,…
‘The Son’ does not stand as tall as ‘The Father’
