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Discover the world behind the Oscar glory

In one of the year’s most anticipated releases, acting greats Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman join a star-studded cast in Florian Zeller’s gripping film, The Father

In a luxurious lives 81-year-old by Oscar ® -winner But all is not as it seems. His daughter Anne (Academy Award-winner Olivia Colman) is starting to creep into his

day-to-day life.

On the one hand, she has nothing but concern for her father, forever organising in-home care for him, while fretting for his welfare – care that, he feels, he simply doesn’t need (and goes to great lengths to reject). On the other, her husband Bill (Mark Gatiss) seems to be making himself a little too comfortable in could have sworn Anne had divorced him and was seeing a new man…

Is his daughter telling the truth – or gaslighting him in some dastardly ruse?

THE MYSTERY UNFOLDS

Anthony’s grasp on reality really starts to crumble when Anne announces she’s moving to Paris to start a life with a new lover Paul (Rufus Sewell), leaving poor Anthony behind. But Bill, the supposed ex-husband, still seems to be hanging around, and even Anne keeps changing her story about whether she’s staying or leaving.

All this makes Anthony question his daughter’s intentions. Is she telling the truth or is she gaslighting him in a

dastardly ruse rus to lay claim to his home? h

From here on in, the line between real events and Anthony’s imagination becomes increasingly blurred, caus causing him to sometimes doubt his close rela relationship with his beloved daughter and his own sanity.

All of this is i compounded by the fact that Anthony Anthony’s darling Lucy, his other daughter, is c conspicuously absent while his world fall falls apart. Where is she and why won’t An Anne let him see her?

UNNERVINGLY UNNE CAPTIVATING CAP

Watching Watchin Anthony grope his way through thr the increasingly labyrinthine labyrin state of his reality y is enough eno to have audiences questioning quest their own minds. s. Yet Ye this gripping family drama rama will begin b to resonate with many as it becomes clear that Anne, ne, like many of us, is being forced ced to take ta on a caring role for her

own parent as he loses his independence. In The Father, a man who was once a vibrant free spirit bursting with wit and sass begins to lose all the qualities that made him who he was. For Anne, watching her dad fade away in this manner and struggle with the consequences is hard-hitting as much as it is captivating.

From the audience’s perspective, this worrying yet thrilling series of events is viewed entirely through Anthony’s eyes, inducing an overwhelming sense of confusion, doubt and, at moments, terror as the world he once knew becomes increasingly fragmented. It’s a mind-boggling sensation that also packs an emotional blow.

A CINEMATIC TRIUMPH

All these qualities have critics enraptured across the board, with some claiming it as ‘the best picture of the year*’, and an honourable reimagining of the award-winning West End play. It’s also the only Best Picture nominee to release theatrically

So, what better way to welcome the return of British cinema as lockdown measures ease than with with a star-studded cast?

‘The Father’ opens in cinemas on Friday Friday. Book y your tickets now at

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