Overview
- Daniel Day-Lewis returns after eight years in his son Ronan Day-Lewis’s feature debut, co-written by the pair.
- The film opens in Italy on 6 November and in the UK on 7 November via Universal Pictures International.
- Reviews describe a dour, over-stylised drama with disjointed storytelling, while highlighting Day-Lewis’s extended monologues as the clear high points.
- Day-Lewis plays a reclusive former British soldier visited by his brother, with the principal cast also featuring Sean Bean, Samantha Morton and Samuel Bottomley.
- Premiered at the New York Film Festival, screened at the BFI and awarded Best First Film in Rome’s Alice nella Città, the title features a Bobby Krlić score and Ben Fordesman’s cinematography, and was produced by Granada, Absinthe, Focus Features and Plan B.