The Father

Name: The Father
Genre: Drama
Released: February 26, 2021
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 88
Cast: Adnan Kundi, Anthony Hopkins, Evie Wray, Imogen Poots, Mark Gatiss

2021

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: February 26, 2021 | PG-13

Starring: Adnan Kundi, Anthony Hopkins, Evie Wray, Imogen Poots, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Colman, Olivia Williams, Ray Burnet, Rufus Sewell

Summary: Anthony is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne, encouragingly introduces. Yet help is also becoming a necessity for Anne; she can’t make daily visits anymore and Anthony's grip on reality is unravelling. As we experience the ebb and flow of his memory, how much of his own identity andAnthony is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne, encouragingly introduces. Yet help is also becoming a necessity for Anne; she can’t make daily visits anymore and Anthony's grip on reality is unravelling. As we experience the ebb and flow of his memory, how much of his own identity and past can Anthony cling to? How does Anne cope as she grieves the loss of her father, while he still lives and breathes before her? … Expand

Director: Florian Zeller

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 97 min

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Todd McCarthy

Feb 1, 2020

The best film about the wages of aging since Amour eight years ago, The Father takes a bracingly insightful, subtle and nuanced look at encroaching dementia and the toll it takes on those in close proximity to the afflicted. Read full review

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Brian Truitt

Feb 24, 2021

Sneakily utilizing production design and uncanny good editing, The Father fascinatingly puts the viewer in the same state of distress as its main character. And in adapting his own play, the director’s carried over an intimate quality of a staged chamber drama to not just show a man dealing with dementia but also offer a way into his mind with a haunting, deeply affecting and quite memorable narrative. Read full review

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Alison Willmore

Feb 26, 2021

Masterful and agonizing, The Father is a gorgeously crafted film about a doomed arrangement entered into with love, even though it can only end in tragedy. Read full review

Josh Larsen

Feb 24, 2021

As for Hopkins, he gives a precisely observed performance, capturing Anthony’s confusion without limiting the character to that single quality. He’s dazzling, for example, when turning on the charm for a potential new caregiver. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

Sep 16, 2020

Hopkins methodically strips away every quality we’ve come to expect from him—the refinement, the silver tongue, the imposing intensity he lent Lecter and Nixon and Titus—until there’s nothing left but frailty and distress. In doing so, he helps convey the full tragedy and horror of dementia: the way it can make someone almost unrecognizable to themselves and their loved ones. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Feb 26, 2021

The Father isn't a picnic to watch, but it is -- somewhat ironically, given Anthony's condition -- a movie, and performance, that's hard to forget. Read full review

K. Austin Collins

Feb 25, 2021

The ending, depending on you, may come off as either too neat or appropriately revelatory. But the film’s emotions have a stark, memorable sheen. Read full review

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