Friday 12th November

THE FATHER (2020)

12A (DRAMA)

Director: Florian Zeller

With Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman

Runtime: 97 mins

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind, and even the fabric of his reality.

WHY BOOK THIS FILM? Admittedly not the cheeriest of subject matter, but a must-see for Hopkins’s Oscar and Bafta-winning performance. Olivia Colman was Oscar[1]nominated as well. “The Father has something of Michael Haneke’s Amour in its one-apartment setting, and also something of Alan Ayckbourn’s 1985 stage-play Woman in Mind, in which the heroine retreats from reality. Its effects are essentially theatrical – but they are powerfully achieved, and the performances from Hopkins and Colman are superb.

It is a film about grief and what it means to grieve for someone who is still alive.” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“It’s a tough watch, for sure, not least in the astonishing, tear-jerking final five minutes. But it’s also gripping and audacious.” Empire

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