It’s been eight years since Sir Daniel Day-Lewis retired with his “final” film, Phantom Thread.
But now the three-time Best Actor Oscar winner has come out of retirement for a new film he co-wrote with his director son Ronan Day-Lewis.
The first trailer has just landed, teasing a gritty drama in which Sean Bean’s character reconnects with his hermit brother in the woods.
The intense new footage teases a past in the British Army during the Northern Irish troubles, perhaps?
Anemone is set to explore “the complex and profound ties that exist between brothers, fathers and sons.”
A synopsis reads: “An absorbing family drama … about lives undone by seemingly irreconcilable legacies of political and personal violence… 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.”
Anemone will premiere at the New York Film Festival this autumn and be released in UK cinemas on November 7, 2025.
