The Father

Synopsis

Winner of two Academy Awards (Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor)

Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman) 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?

THE FATHER warmly embraces real life, through loving reflection upon the vibrant human condition; heart-breaking and uncompromisingly poignant – a movie that nestles in the truth of our own lives.

“THE FATHER is in a class of its own. It’s a triumph” (Detroit News)
“Anthony Hopkins delivers a master class in acting as a once-brilliant man losing his mental faculties to the plague of dementia” (ABC News)
“Beguiling, unsparing, terribly moving and occasionally very funny. Mr. Hopkins is the master of it all” (Wall Street Journal)
“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”
(New York Magazine)