LOSING TOUCH Anthony Hopkins stars as an ageing man who is rapidly succumbing to dementia.
In the eight years since Florian Zeller’s play Le Père premiered at the Théâtre Hébertot in Paris, it’s toured the globe, scooping Molières, Oliviers and Tonys in the process. Not content with conquering the stage, Zeller himself writes and directs this feature adaptation starring Anthony Hopkins as a man in the destructive thrall of dementia. “What I didn’t want to do was just to film the play, because I think that’s boring and not very challenging,” Zeller tells Teasers. “I worked hard to make it as cinematic as it could be.”