Synopsis
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
2020 Directed by Florian Zeller
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
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Meu Pai, 父亲, 老父, 爸爸可否不要老, Otec, ความทรงจำ ความรัก ความลืม, 더 파더, El padre, Отец, Baba, The Father - Nulla è come sembra, 父親, Ο Πατέρας, ファーザー, 困在时间里的父亲, Батько, Otac, Az apa, האב, Отац, Người Cha, O Pai, Ojciec, Le père, Isä, Tėvas, Бащата, El pare, Oče, پدر, الأب, Tatăl
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eat your heart out christopher nolan because this is how you make a movie that fucks with time and reality
just an absolutely heartbreaking film from beginning to end. belongs in a very small group of movies that i don’t think i could bring myself to watch again. i really don’t know what else there is to say? anthony hopkins deserves the world.
You know when you see someone blow into a balloon when it's already pretty big, and you're like "whoa! that thing's gonna pop!" and then you stop paying attention for a bit and you come back and it's even bigger and you're like "jesus it's still going?" and then every time you come back to it you've stopped being impressed by how big it's able to go and your heart starts to beat real fast because you're afraid it's going to explode any second? That's how I feel about Anthony Hopkins aging.
Great actor, great movie! Honestly one of the scariest films I have seen in a while. Plays from Hopkins's perspective like a slo-mo psychological thriller, which is the…
florian zeller really said i'm gonna cast the best actors and make them give their best performances until the viewers cry into their stupid little movie snacks
Had to do the biggest double take of my life when the film opened with a harpsichord score over Olivia Colman walking and the credit “edited by Yorgos Lamprinos” popped up
shocked at how many old people were in my cinema considering the fact that if i was old this would be the LAST FUCKING MOVIE i would ever want to watch
florian zeller: hey olivia pls come act in my new movie
olivia colman: no
florian zeller: glenn close might be winning her first oscar
olivia colman: when do we start
AFI 2020: film #11
“what about me? who exactly am i?”
feels like still alice infused with charlie kaufman, where time is skipped and looped and often a terrifyingly immersive look into the protagonist’s psyche. definitely more creative than the oscar bait i was expecting, but still performance driven and quite heartbreaking
At once both an unsettlingly accurate simulation of what it’s like to love someone with dementia, and also a strikingly believable conception of what it’s like to live as someone with dementia, Florian Zeller’s “The Father” envisions senility as a house of mirrors in which everyone loses sight of themselves. Adapted from Zeller’s award-winning play of the same name, and directed with a firm hand by the playwright himself, this M.C. Escher drawing of a movie chips away at the austerity of the Euro-dramas that inform its style until every shot betrays the promise of its objectivity, and reality itself becomes destabilized.
“The Father” is a slippery film in which even the most basic information can be vaporized in the…