Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins in The Father (2020) | Sony Pictures Classics
Don’t you remember? This innocuous question, a conversational bridge and a filler in daily speech, becomes a cross that Anthony is increasingly unable to bear. An octogenarian from London, Anthony has begun an inexorable slide into dementia. Time has lost meaning for him, even though he tries to keep up by constantly peering at his watch – if only he could find it.
The characteristics of this debilitating form of mental atrophy are brilliantly imagined for the screen in Florian Zeller’s Oscar-nominated
The Father – the crippling loss of memory and inability to distinguish morning from evening, the hallucinations and the paranoia, the repetitive behaviour, the terror over the gradual loss of identity. The French playwright and first-time director has based
Prediction: One year after
Parasite’s historic victory, will the Academy have another uncommon spell of good taste? The stars appear to be aligning for
Nomadland, which has won the top prize from the Hollywood Foreign Press, the British Academy, the Producers Guild, and the Directors Guild (the last three of which share lots of members with the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences). But don’t pop the bubbly for last year’s most critically acclaimed movie just yet. After all,
1917 won all of those same precursors, only to lose Best Picture at the finish line.
Parasite, which swooped in for the upset, came into Oscar night with the Screen Actors Guild ensemble award under its belt. This year, that went to
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Leave it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to show the Golden Globes how it’s done. The nominees are a step up, but best of all, the Oscars are sweeping Zoom into the dustbin. The much-delayed 93rd Academy Awards convenes Sunday in pandemic style: the ceremony will be social-distanced and attendees will be maskless while on camera. The pandemic restrictions aren’t the only changes: Six years after the first #OscarsSoWhite tweet, the year’s pool is one of the most diverse in the show’s history though the multiple “Da 5 Bloods” snubs prove that there is still work to do. Whether the winners celebrate the breadth of the past year’s cinema is a different matter. Here are our predictions.
film profile]), from Zellerâs acclaimed stage play,
The Son follows Peter (Jackman) as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate (Dern) turns up with their troubled, distant, and angry teenage son, Nicholas. Nicholas wishes to live with his father. Despite Peterâs best intentions, the bonds between the family remain incredibly strained.
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The original stage version of
The Son opened in London in February 2019, and Londonâs West End in September 2019, to rave reviews. Writer-director Zeller says,
âThe Son is a deeply human story which, I believe, connects us all; I hope audiences will be profoundly moved by this familyâs journey. The story is set in a vibrant and very much alive New York, an important character. The movie should make us call family and friends to tell them that they are wholly loved and not alone.â