THE FATHER

By Florian ZELLER

VIEWFINDER FILM - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2019

Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman star in Florian Zeller’s ingenious, subtly hallucinatory chamber drama about a man’s slide into dementia.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2020
Special Presentations
San Sebastian 2020
Perlak Section - City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 97 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Florian ZELLER
    • Synopsis
    • Almost 80, mischievous, caustic, and defiantly living alone, Anthony (Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins) rejects each and every hired caretaker that his daughter, Anne (Academy Award winner Olivia Colman), lovingly introduces. Anne is desperate for help. She can’t make daily visits anymore, and Anthony’s grip on reality is unraveling. Given the ebb and flow of his memory, how much of his own identity and past can he cling to? Anne grieves the loss of her father as he lives and breathes before her—but doesn’t she have the right to live her own life?