FILM
ANEMONE
IN THE NAME OF THE (FUCKED-UP) FATHER
Logging out: Daniel Day-Lewis as former soldier Ray.
Sean Bean as brother Jem.
★★★★
OUT 7 NOV / CERT TBC / 120 MINS
DIRECTOR Ronan Day-Lewis
CAST Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley, Safia Oakley-Green
PLOT Former soldier Ray Stoker (Day-Lewis) lives in the woods, a hermit-like existence that is interrupted when his estranged brother Jem (Bean) arrives with a plea for help.
FOR THE HORTICULTURALLY challenged, the anemone is a delicate plant that closes its petals as a storm approaches. For a story about withdrawing from the world and becoming emotionally bottled up, the flower-as-metaphor title is perhaps the most on-the-nose thing about Ronan Day-Lewis’ feature debut.