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‘The Son’ Director Florian Zeller & Star Laura Dern Aim To Open “A Conversation” On Mental Health With Parenting Drama – Contenders L.A.
With his latest film The Son, filmmaker Florian Zeller looked to open “a conversation” surrounding issues of mental health that he feels there’s too often “shame, guilt and ignorance around.” Another key component of the storytelling — here, as in Zeller’s recent Oscar winner The Father — is parenthood, and the difficulty of experiencing a sense of “powerlessness” in this arena.
