After three Best Actor Oscar wins, Sir Daniel Day-Lewis announced his retirement from acting following the release of 2017’s Phantom Thread.
Yet eight years on and he’s returned to the big screen in a new drama directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis.
Having penned the script together, the new film Anemone is “an absorbing family drama … about lives undone by seemingly irreconcilable legacies of political and personal violence.”
Sean Bean stars as a middle-aged man who “sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother (Day-Lewis). Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship—one that was forever altered by shattering events decades earlier.”
Set in the North of England, the film’s description continues: “An emotional powerhouse, this directorial debut is assured in both small details and grand gestures as it charts the path toward familial redemption against all odds. In addition to its unflinching lead performances, Anemone features standout supporting work from Samantha Morton and Samuel Bottomley, and sensationally expressive widescreen cinematography by Ben Fordesman.”
Anemone will have its world premiere at The New York Film Festival this autumn.