Why not shut the door Well, a lot of books do that and we need to really look at what is going on. In Identical which is about sexual abuse by a parent and I take my readers right into the bedroom. To write it requires having sex in the book, and not pretty sex. It's an exceedingly clever and polished piece of filmmaking, and it marks an impressive feature debut for the French writer-director Florian Zeller, adapting his own popular play with the veteran screenwriter Christopher Hampton. My latest book Tricks is about teen prostitution. The Father is thus both a psychological detective story and a stealth haunted-house movie. At some point, it becomes unclear whether we're in Anthony's apartment or Anne's apartment, into which Anthony has been moved since he can no longer live on his own. You notice puzzling discrepancies - wasn't there a lamp on that hallway table just a moment ago? Weren't those kitchen cabinets a completely different color? - and suddenly realize that Anthony's mind is blurring different time frames together. The apartment itself, brilliantly designed by Peter Francis, begins to shift of its own accord. Anne goes out shopping for groceries, but when she returns, she's played not by Olivia Colman but by another actress, Olivia Williams. We're adrift in a sea of Anthony's memories each new plot development undermines the one before it.Ī man suddenly appears in the apartment, claiming to be Anne's husband, which is odd, since just a few moments earlier, Anne seemed to be single. What makes the movie so unsettling is the way it wires us directly into his subjective experience, so that the foundations of the story seem to shift at random from scene to scene. Movie Interviews Filmmaker Faces Her Father's Mortality By Staging His 'Death' Again And AgainĪs The Father goes on, the more it becomes clear that it's his own mind that's playing tricks on him.
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