THE SON Q&A at AFI Fest with Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Florian Zeller and More

►Subscribe to AFI on YouTube: A post-screening 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 brand-new baby. Unhappy living with his mother (Laura Dern) and suffering from severe depression, Nicholas pleads to live with his father. His intrusion into Peter’s happy home is a calamity. Nicholas dodges school for months and struggles to accept his father’s apparent marital bliss which begins to rupture. The complicated family’s tense relationship comes to a