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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
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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.