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If You’re Confused or Unsettled by ‘The Father,’ You Can Thank the Production Designer
TheWrap awards magazine: The look of Anthony Hopkins’ apartment is a big reason why Florian Zeller’s film about dementia keeps its audience off-balance
By Steve Pond | March 3, 2021 @ 12:00 PM
A version of this story about “The Father” first appeared in the Oscar Nominations Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Florian Zeller’s “The Father” is an intricate puzzle of a film. Based on the stage play by Zeller, it appears to be a series of conversations between a man, Anthony (Anthony Hopkins), his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman), and a couple of other people who come in and out of Anthony’s apartment. But events change, the people might be hallucinations, and slowly we realize we’re as confused as Anthony, who is suffering from dementia.