I absolutely loved The Father for all the reasons you’ve mentioned. It was up with with Minari and Sound of Metal for my favorite of the Best Picture nominees last year. It’ll almost certainly make my top 10 films of 2021. Hopkins was great, and I especially loved the production design and the ensemble cast. A film that I thought would be a middling film version of a play turned out to be essential cinema.
I still need to check out Days; this may be the kick-in-the-pants I needed to do so.
Also, as far as musicals go, Come From Away is great and I hope we continue to get more recorded performances from Broadway, off-Broadway, and wherever else.
I really need to re-watch The Father. I was bringing all the above-mentioned expectations to it and I don't think I really let the movie push past that baggage. I also brought my own emotional baggage to it and I think that caused me to put up even more walls around the emotional side of the film. I was able to appreciate what it was doing on an intellectual level, but I don't think I let myself feel the film until the last scene. And by then it was too late.
I unfortunately missed The Father in theaters, and the $20 for streaming seems too high a price to pay. I think having such a high price for streaming for so long probably hurts the film's word of mouth. Why charge more than a theater would charge? It should cost less to wait for streaming, not more. I get that it's cheaper per person for families, but a whole lot of us are single!
Thank you for pointing me to the Days link. I've been waiting for it to become available somewhere. Beautiful film. I watched Goodbye, Dragon Inn earlier this year and it joined Matinee, Demons, and Anguish in my favorite movies set in a movie theater.
I absolutely loved The Father for all the reasons you’ve mentioned. It was up with with Minari and Sound of Metal for my favorite of the Best Picture nominees last year. It’ll almost certainly make my top 10 films of 2021. Hopkins was great, and I especially loved the production design and the ensemble cast. A film that I thought would be a middling film version of a play turned out to be essential cinema.
I still need to check out Days; this may be the kick-in-the-pants I needed to do so.
Also, as far as musicals go, Come From Away is great and I hope we continue to get more recorded performances from Broadway, off-Broadway, and wherever else.
I really need to re-watch The Father. I was bringing all the above-mentioned expectations to it and I don't think I really let the movie push past that baggage. I also brought my own emotional baggage to it and I think that caused me to put up even more walls around the emotional side of the film. I was able to appreciate what it was doing on an intellectual level, but I don't think I let myself feel the film until the last scene. And by then it was too late.
I unfortunately missed The Father in theaters, and the $20 for streaming seems too high a price to pay. I think having such a high price for streaming for so long probably hurts the film's word of mouth. Why charge more than a theater would charge? It should cost less to wait for streaming, not more. I get that it's cheaper per person for families, but a whole lot of us are single!
The Father was the best horror movie of 2020
Thank you for pointing me to the Days link. I've been waiting for it to become available somewhere. Beautiful film. I watched Goodbye, Dragon Inn earlier this year and it joined Matinee, Demons, and Anguish in my favorite movies set in a movie theater.