Chadwick Boseman, Delroy Lindo, Riz Ahmed), Anthony Hopkins ranks high for his seismic turn in “The Father.” The 83-year-old legend plays a man suffering from dementia, during the terrible moment when he’s starting to lose his grip on reality.
Stories about the aging mind have grown in popularity as the population has been leading longer lives, and now too many of us can connect to this traumatic experience.
But what French director Florian Zeller attempts to do here is show the horrific experience from the patient’s view, rather than the usual vantage of saddened loved ones.
How do you express the thoughts of an unraveling brain? Weirdly.The unusual drama begins with Anthony (Hopkins) getting a visit from his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman,.
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