Anthony breaks down in tears over his inability to understand what is happening to him, as well as Anne's disappearance.
Another nurse named Bill also visits, identical to one of the men who earlier appeared to be Anne's husband. She informs him that Anne lives in Paris and visits on occasional weekends. His nurse arrives, who earlier appeared as both Anne and Laura, but identifies herself as Catherine. He then wakes up in a completely different bedroom, which is in a nursing home. He remembers Lucy lying in a hospital bed with blood on her face. Paul asks Anthony how long he plans to stay in their flat and annoy everyone this sequence of events is repeated later, and on the second occasion Paul slaps him.Īnthony wakes up and walks out of the flat, finding himself in a hospital hallway. After Anne comes home, she and her husband – who is sometimes called Paul and sometimes James, and appears as two different men – have an argument over a holiday that had to be cancelled because of Anthony's needs, and about Anne's sacrifices for her father. Over the course of the film, it becomes clear that Anthony has really been living with Anne for years, but believes he still lives in his own flat. She tells him she is sorry about Lucy's accident, but Anthony is confused as he has no recollection of the accident. Later, he tells Laura how proud he is of Lucy, a painter. Anthony later says Laura reminds him of his other daughter Lucy, whom he has not seen for a long time.Īnthony is taken to a doctor and rejects the idea that he has memory problems.
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When a new caregiver, Laura, arrives for an interview, Anthony tells Laura he was a professional dancer and insists he does not need any assistance. Anne returns but appears to Anthony as a different woman. Paul says he is Anne's husband and that Anthony is living in their flat. The next day, Anthony encounters an unknown man, Paul, in his flat. Anne says that if he keeps refusing to have a caregiver, she will have to move him into a nursing home. She tells Anthony she is moving to Paris to be with a man, which confuses Anthony since he does not recall any men in her life since the end of her marriage to James.
He tells Anne he believes his caregiver stole his watch and that he will never move out of his flat. He has dementia and constantly forgets important life events and where things are around his flat, including his watch. Plot Īnne visits her father Anthony in his flat after he has driven away the latest of several caregivers.
Since then, it has been cited as one of the best films of the 2020s and the 21st century. In addition, Hopkins and Colman were nominated for Outstanding Leading Actor and Outstanding Supporting Actress, respectively, at the 27th Screen Actors Guild Awards. At the 78th Golden Globe Awards the film received four nominations (including Best Motion Picture – Drama), and received six nominations at the 74th British Academy Film Awards, winning Best Actor (Hopkins) and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film grossed $34 million on a $6 million budget and was acclaimed by critics, who lauded the performances of Hopkins and Colman, as well as the production values and its portrayal of dementia.Īt the 93rd Academy Awards, Hopkins won Best Actor and Zeller and Hampton won Best Adapted Screenplay the film received six nominations in total, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Colman. The Father premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on 27 January 2020 and was released by Sony Pictures Classics in the United States on 26 February 2021, in France on by Orange Studio and UGC, and in the United Kingdom on 11 June 2021 by Lionsgate UK. A French-British co-production, the film stars Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell, and Olivia Williams, and follows an octogenarian Welsh man living with dementia. The Father is a 2020 psychological drama film directed by Florian Zeller, in his directorial debut he co-wrote the screenplay with fellow playwright Christopher Hampton on the basis of Zeller's 2012 play Le Père, which is part of a trilogy that also includes Le Fils and The Mother.
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