Overview

• At a Whitby Hotel event tied to the New York Film Festival, Martin Scorsese moderated a Q&A and praised the movie’s cinematic sophistication.
• Scorsese dissected the opening sequence shot by shot, highlighting the film’s camera placement, sound design, and mounting tension.
• Daniel Day-Lewis returned to acting after eight years to co-write the script and star under the direction of his son, Ronan Day-Lewis.
• Sean Bean co-stars as Day-Lewis’s brother in a notably restrained performance, with Samantha Morton and Samuel Bottomley in principal roles.
• Conceived as an intimate two-hander and later expanded, the film was shot over 35 days in England and Wales and is now playing in theaters via Focus Features.