'We Don't Know What's Coming': Anthony Hopkins Plays 'The Father' With Dementia
3 years, 10 months ago

'We Don't Know What's Coming': Anthony Hopkins Plays 'The Father' With Dementia

NPR  

'We Don't Know What's Coming': Anthony Hopkins Plays 'The Father' With Dementia Enlarge this image toggle caption Sean Gleason/Sony Pictures Classics. Sponsor Message Interview Highlights On the effort to make the film mirror the experience of dementia Zeller: There are so many films about dementia.. On taking on the role of someone living with dementia Hopkins: My initial reaction when I read the script was an immediate "Yes." Sponsor Message On wanting the audience to relate to Colman's character — a daughter trying to care for her father Zeller: With someone like Olivia Colman.

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The Father review: Anthony Hopkins deserved his Oscar for deeply moving depiction of dementia
3 years, 6 months ago

The Father review: Anthony Hopkins deserved his Oscar for deeply moving depiction of dementia

The Independent  

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell, Olivia Williams. Anthony Hopkins’s performance in The Father, Florian Zeller’s haunting dementia drama, feels delicate and crushingly familiar. And yet, it’s been too easily reduced to a mere pawn in the backlash against this year’s Academy Awards, where producers made the baffling decision to end the night on Best …

’The Father’ review: Anthony Hopkins delivers a masterclass
3 years, 8 months ago

’The Father’ review: Anthony Hopkins delivers a masterclass

Live Mint  

Most often storytellers approach narratives about aging and loss of mental faculties from the point of view of the family and external impact. It’s a sympathetic and deeply moving story that looks out from his perspective at muddled timelines, jumbled memories and a palpable fear of mortality. Based on his stage play Le Père, Zeller has adapted his story to …

Review: In ‘The Father,’ the disorientation of dementia
3 years, 10 months ago

Review: In ‘The Father,’ the disorientation of dementia

Associated Press  

In Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” Anthony, 80, in the grip of dementia, is a captain ready to go down with the ship. “The Father,” which opens in theaters Friday, is Zeller’s directorial debut but he’s a well-known French playwright and author who’s here adapting his own play, one that’s been put on around the world. Michael Haneke’s “Amour,” with Jean-Louis …

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