The Father
Synopsis
Anthony (Academy Award® Winner Anthony Hopkins) is almost 80 and mischievous. Living alone in his London apartment, he refuses every nurse his daughter Anne (Academy Award® and Golden Globe® Winner Olivia Colman) tries to hire. Yet the need is pressing - Anne can’t visit daily, and she’s decided to move to Paris to live with a man she has just met.
But if this is the case, then who is this stranger who suddenly bursts into Anthony’s living room, claiming to be married to Anne for over ten years? And why is he claiming with such conviction that they are at the married couple’s home, and not his? Is Anthony losing his mind? There seems to be something going around, as if the world has ceased to be logical.
The Father is about the heartbreaking and uncompromisingly poignant trajectory of a man whose reality crumbles little by little before our eyes, and of Anne, his daughter, who must decide between her own life and her father’s dignity.
Director
Florian Zeller
Cast
Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman