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The way in which the sets subtly change throughout the film is perfectly disorientating, with even the doctor’s office looking as if it is cut from the same cloth, designed to confuse the viewer.
While these subtle moments are what brings the universality of the story together, what anchors it is its performances.
Olivia Colman is incapable of being unrelatable, and that is clear as her eyes well up at the sight of her father’s pain, as well as the pain at losing her own life or sacrificing it for her dad.
As well as this, the brutality of the condition is brought to light in moments where Anthony is aggressive and vicious with his daughter, with her tears echoing that of anyone with a heart watching her distress.
Directed by Florian Zeller.
SYNOPSIS:
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.
The Father wears its stageplay origins on its sleeves, still with room to remarkably function as a stylistically bleak cinematic journey into the mind like no other. Anthony Hopkins’s surefire Oscar-worthy performance just happens to be the cherry on top. Nevertheless, co-writer/Director Florian Zeller (adapting his own play alongside Christopher Hampton) is telling not so much a story about dementia but rather goes for a visceral and vicarious depiction of that, making for something wholly original and hauntingly beautiful with brilliantly edited (courtesy of Yorgos Lamprinos) together passages of time, repetition, physical locations, and lost memories of a now fragmented mind.
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