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Venice Film Festival 2022: Director Florian Zeller once again explores mental illness in a bolder, less focused follow-up to “The Father”
The COVID-19 pandemic was hard on everyone, not least of all Judd Apatow. Among the many...
02/12/2020 - Anthony Hopkins gives a tour-de-force performance in Florian Zeller's adaptation of his own play
Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins in The Father (2020) | Sony Pictures Classics Don’t you remember? This innocuous question, a conversational bridge and a filler in daily speech, becomes a cross that Anthony is increasingly unable to bear. An octogenarian from London, Anthony has begun an inexorable slide into dementia. Time has lost meaning for him, even though he tries to keep up by constantly peering at his watch – if only he could find it. The characteristics of this debilitating form of mental atrophy are brilliantly imagined for the screen in Florian Zeller’s Os...
4 ½ stars (out of 5) "Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away?" legendary basketball coach Pat Summit once asked, describing her struggle with Alzheimer's. "The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sandcastles." In The Father, it's an octogenarian named Anthony whose sandcastles are getting washed away. The character shares the name and birthdate of the actor portraying him (Anthony Hopkins), but the film is not biographical. Instead, writer-director Florian Zeller based the drama on his 2012 Molière Award-winning play, Le Père, which t...