‘The Son’ Shines a Light on Mental Health Epidemic

With Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Son,” writer-director Florian Zeller defies expectations about parenthood — and about traditional movie storytelling. He asks big questions, but doesn’t offer easy answers. This has thrown off some audience members who want the film to conform to familiar movie scenarios, or at least to follow the pattern of Zeller’s 2020 “The Father,” with questions about what’s real and what isn’t, and a big twist partway through. But Zeller doesn’t want to follow those rules. Zeller has written 13 plays, adapting two into his first films. “Most of my plays are structured as mazes or labyrinths,… Read Full Article