Overview

• Anemone premiered Sept. 28 at the New York Film Festival, marking Ronan Day-Lewis’s feature debut and a co-written return to the screen for his father after eight years.
• The drama follows estranged brothers reconnecting as a reclusive ex-soldier confronts long-buried family and historical trauma.
• Reviewers widely single out Daniel Day-Lewis’s performance, especially two extended monologues that many describe as riveting highlights.
• Critics who are less favorable call the film overly solemn and say its magical‑realist imagery and abstractions don’t always cohere.
• Focus Features will open the film in select U.S. theaters on Oct. 3 before a wider rollout Oct. 10, and Day-Lewis says the collaboration has him considering his next role.