Passes the Bechdel test

Freud's Last Session

Name: Freud's Last Session
Released: 2024

2024. Directed by Matt Brown, written by Mark St. Germain and Matt Brown and Armand M. Nicholi Jr..

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
5 women characters. 6 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 4 scenes out of 133.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.

The film

Set on the eve of WWII and towards the end of his life, Freud's Last Session sees Freud (Hopkins) invite iconic author C.S. Lewis for a debate over the existence of God. Exploring Freud's unique relationship with his lesbian daughter Anna and Lewis' unconventional romance with his best friend's mother, the film interweaves past, present and fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud's study on a dynamic journey.

Released: 14 Jun 2024
Genres: Drama
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 6.1 / 10
Metascore: 48 / 100
Awards: 1 nomination total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Freud 252 lines, man
Lewis 240 lines, man
Anna 80 lines, woman
Janie Moore 42 lines, woman
Dorothy 30 lines, woman
Jones 19 lines, man
Tolkien 15 lines, man
Dr. Berbridge 10 lines
Warren 10 lines, man
Dorothy Burlingham 7 lines, woman

Full cast, 17 people

Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud
Matthew Goode as C. S. Lewis
Liv Lisa Fries as Anna Freud
Jodi Balfour as Dorothy Burlingham
Jeremy Northam as Ernest Jones
Stephen Campbell Moore as J. R. R. Tolkien
Orla Brady as Janie Moore
David Shields as Weldon
Tarek Bishara as Jacob Freud
George Andrew-Clarke as Paddy Moore
Gary Buckley as Albert Lewis
Pádraic Delaney as Warren Lewis
Rhys Mannion as Young C. S. Lewis
Anna Amalie Blomeyer as Ilsa
Cara Christie as Clerk
Ian Dillon as Inkling (uncredited)
John Hayes as Priest

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 7% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 133

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	0
4 to 6	1	1
7 to 9	6	5
10 to 12	11	12
13 to 15	2	4
16 to 18	0	26
19 to 21	0	4
22 to 24	0	26
25 to 27	15	1
28 to 30	2	13
31 to 33	0	11
34 to 36	0	14
37 to 39	0	10
40 to 42	0	5
43 to 45	0	27
46 to 48	0	22
49 to 51	0	21
52 to 54	6	4
55 to 57	0	8
58 to 60	0	9
61 to 63	7	12
64 to 66	6	1
67 to 69	12	24
70 to 72	1	4
73 to 75	2	16
76 to 78	2	6
79 to 81	8	3
82 to 84	0	19
85 to 87	22	0
88 to 90	4	28
91 to 93	11	11
94 to 96	0	27
97 to 99	3	16
100 to 102	3	15
103 to 105	11	0
106 to 108	7	7
109 to 111	7	7
112 to 114	1	51
115 to 117	2	17
118 to 120	1	4
121 to 123	3	25
124 to 126	0	1
127 to 129	0	38
130 to 132	12	9
133 to 133	0	3

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

ANNA: The talks broke down. DOROTHY: God help us.

DOROTHY: Chemists are closing early like every other business. Let's make some calls first. ANNA: I'll find one on the way home. DOROTHY: Then we'll go together. ANNA: Absolutely not!

DOROTHY: Don't. ANNA: What could I possibly ask? DOROTHY: My therapy session are mine alone. Find your own therapist. ANNA: I just might... You do look like a bit flushed. I wonder what you could have talked about that would have caused that.

ANNA: I suppose you need great faith to believe in either. Good bye. DOROTHY: ANNA! DOROTHY: Are you certain we should do this? ANNA: I always looked to someone else for answers. But I've never been more certain.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 23 are women's.

168 lines from women, 567 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

5 women and 8 men in the cast. 6 women and 9 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 4 of 790. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 133 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 21% of the words (1,558), men 79% (5,908). Women have 23% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

3 of the 16 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 30% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Matt Brown (man)
Written by: Matt Brown (man), Mark St. Germain (man)
Produced by: Meg Thomson (gender not listed), Alan Greisman (man), Rick Nicita (man), Hannah Leader (woman), Matt Brown (man), Tristan Lynch (man) and 1 more
Shot by: Ben Smithard (man)
Edited by: Paul Tothill (man)
Music by: Coby Brown (gender not listed)
Production design by: Luciana Arrighi (woman)
Cast by: Lillie Jeffrey (woman), Reg Poerscout-Edgerton (man)