4 ½ stars (out of 5) Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? legendary basketball coach Pat Summit once asked, describing her struggle with Alzheimer s. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sandcastles.
In
The Father, it s an octogenarian named Anthony whose sandcastles are getting washed away. The character shares the name and birthdate of the actor portraying him (Anthony Hopkins), but the film is not biographical.
Instead, writer-director Florian Zeller based the drama on his 2012 Molière Award-winning play,
Le Père, which tells the simple story of an elderly man whose mental faculties are deteriorating and who must face difficult decisions related to his long-term care. Nevertheless, in the hands of Hopkins, the protagonist feels starkly real, as if you re witnessing one of the cinema s greatest actors careen into dementia.
The entire world has been reacting to the nominations for the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards, scheduled to take place on April 25 (early hours of April 26 according to India time). The nominees, have shared their excitement through interviews and .
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The Father lead this year’s nominations, with two women Chloé Zhao and Sarah Gavron nabbing seven nominations each. Four women total earned nods for directing compared to last year’s all-male directing nominees, and in a reversal from last year’s entirely white acting nominees, 16 of 2021 s 24 nominated actors are from underrepresented groups.
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Deadline, the changes come as the result of a seven-month review process (HFPA better be taking some copious notes), in which the organization evaluated its procedures and implemented some changes, “including the introduction of a long-list system in a bid to increase viewership of all the submitted films, and increasing all four acting categories and the best director category to six nominees.” A total of 50 films (up from last year’s 39) were nominated this year, and the changes additionally resulted in more first-time nominees than ever before: Four of the six directors nominated, as well as 21 of th