US Edition'Anemone' review: Daniel Day-Lewis returns to screen in inert drama
Daniel Day-Lewis co-wrote and stars in 'Anemone,' marking his return after eight years with a role as a reclusive veteran confronting family trauma, earning 56% on Rotten Tomatoes.
- On Oct. 3, Daniel Day-Lewis, three-time Academy Award winner, returned to acting after eight years in Anemone , co-written with Ronan Day-Lewis, director and co-writer.
- Ronan Day-Lewis made his directorial debut and co-wrote Anemone with his father, marking an artistic collaboration that brought Daniel Day-Lewis back after 21 years since The Ballad of Jack and Rose.
- Day-Lewis's performance was described as searing and commanding, while reviewers praised acting but criticized the film's slow pace and narrative doldrums.
- Some critics say the release has reignited debate about Day-Lewis's return and calls Anemone a promising first step for Ronan despite flaws.
- The film's visuals are accomplished with standout sequences like a hailstorm of golf ball-sized pellets, while the narrative centers on Ray Stoker’s trauma and brutal monologues about revenge.
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‘Anemone’ review: Daniel Day-Lewis returns to screen in inert drama
By Adam Graham, The Detroit News After hanging up his spurs following 2017’s “Phantom Thread,” Daniel Day-Lewis returns to the big screen with “Anemone,” a dark, painfully slow and almost inscrutable psychological drama. He gives a searing performance in what feels like the world’s most impressively cast student film, which is directed by his son, Ronan Day-Lewis. The actor plays Ray Stoker, a hermit living off the grid in a cabin in the woods i…
Daniel Day-Lewis is back in bleak, dense ‘Anemone’
It is often said of our greatest actors that they could compellingly recite the phone book. There’s no doubt, just to continue that thought for a moment, that Daniel Day-Lewis is one of our greatest living actors — perhaps truly the best of them all. And so the first and most important thing to say about “Anemone,” a bleak, somber, absorbing but also sometimes frustratingly opaque collaboration with his director son Ronan, is that it’s brought D…
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'Anemone' review: Daniel Day-Lewis returns to screen in inert drama
The actor's return comes in his son's debut feature.
At the Movies: Bleak family drama ‘Anemone' brings the great Daniel Day-Lewis back in from the cold
The first and most important thing to say about “Anemone,” a bleak, somber, absorbing but also sometimes frustratingly opaque collaboration with his director son Ronan, is that it's brought Daniel Day-Lewis back.
It is often said of our best actors who could recite the phone book convincingly.
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