Sundance Film Festival 2021

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The Father

The Father
Anthony – 80, caustic, defiant and mischievous rejects every caretaker that her daughter brings. As Anthony’s grip on reality wavers, Anne is desperate for help. She can’t make daily visits and the flow of his memory is faltering. Her father’s deteriorating conditions grieves her to no loss but then again, doesn’t she have the right to live her own life?

With rightful comparisons to King Lear and based on an award-winning play lays bares human vulnerability and frailty. An uncompromising poignant and memorable take that pieces the truth and the nature of reality in a mesmerizing chamber.



CATEGORY Premieres

COUNTRY United Kingdom/France



RUN TIME 97 min

COMPANY Embankment Films

WEBSITE https://www.embankmentfilms.com/



EMAIL [email protected]

PHONE +442071834739

Credits

Director
  • Florian Zeller
Screenwriters
  • Christopher Hampton
  • Florian Zeller
Hair/Makeup Designer
  • Nadia Stacey
Costume Designer
  • Anna Mary Scott Robbins
Composer
  • Ludovico Einaudi
Editor
  • Yorgos Lamprinos
Production Designer
  • Peter Francis
Director Of Photography
  • Ben Smithard
Executive Producers
  • Lauren Dark
  • Ollie Madden
  • Daniel Battsek
  • Hugo Grumbar
  • Tim Haslam
  • Paul Grindey
  • Zygi Kamasa
Co-Producer
  • Alice Dawson
Producers
  • Simon Friend
  • Christophe Spadone
Produced By
  • Philippe Carcassonne
  • Jean-Louis Livi
  • David Parfitt
Principal Cast
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Olivia Colman
  • Mark Gatiss
  • Imogen Poots
  • Rufus Sewell
  • Olivia Williams

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