The first feature from writer/director Florian Zeller, The Father began its life as an award-winning play. “I wrote it seven years ago, and it was [inspired by] a personal issue,” the director said…
began its life as an award-winning play.
“I wrote it seven years ago, and it was [inspired by] a personal issue,” the director said, in conversation with Deadline in Sundance. “My grandmother raised me, and she started to suffer from dementia when I was 15. So, I was directly and personally touched by this issue.”centers on Anthony, a man in his 80s who begins succumbing to dementia, refusing all assistance from his daughter Anne as he ages.
While adapting his play for the screen with Christopher Hampton, Zeller thought a lot about how to give the material a cinematic dimension. “At the same time, I wanted to keep the narrative of the play, which is to try to put the audience in a very active position, as if the audience was, in a way, in the main character’s mind,” he said, “as if it was a way to experience a slice of dementia.
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