The Father

Another week, another new release that will make you sob (but in a good way!). This week it’s Florian Zeller’s incredible debut film THE FATHER, which everyone on our team can’t stop talking about. The film follows Anthony Hopkins as a man suffering from dementia, and Zeller has designed the film so that the audience sees what Hopkins sees. One minute his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman) tells him she’s moving to Paris with her new boyfriend; the next, Anne's husband shows up declaring that Anthony is actually living in his and Anne's apartment. It’s incredibly disorienting and distressing. That said, the film is full of comedy, too. Hopkins (in an incredible, award-worthy performance) flits from laughing to crying, from tap dancing to screaming with rage, so rapidly you can barely keep up. If you only have time to watch one awards-contender film this week (or month), make it this one. I promise you won’t regret it.

—Julia Hammer, Creative Executive