EXCLUSIVE: In 2014, French playwright Florian Zeller won the Molière Award for Le Pere, a play about an aging man’s bout with dementia.
Seven years, a TV series and a French film adaptation later, Zeller brings his words to the big screen and to the Oscar-season awards race.Starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, The Father centers on Anthony, a man in his 80s who begins succumbing to dementia, refusing all assistance from his daughter.Back at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Zeller told Deadline that the inspiration for his play-turned-film was his grandmother, who raised him. “She was like my mother,” he said. “She started to suffer from dementia when I was 15, so I knew a bit what it was to go through this painful process.”The
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