Daniel Day-Lewis’ new movie, ‘Anemone’, among new additions to New York Film Festival
Anemone, the first movie to star Daniel Day-Lewis in eight years, is set to premiere at the New York Film Festival.
The prestigious film festival is set to run from September 26th until October 13th. Other new additions to its schedule include the upcoming Apple TV+ documentary on Martin Scorsese, Mr Scorsese, Ben Stiller’s Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, and the upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic, Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White.
News of Day-Lewis ending his retirement was confirmed last October when he was pictured filming in Manchester. It later emerged that the project was his son, Ronan Day-Lewis’, directorial debut and also features Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, and Samuel Bottomley.
Anemone’s synopsis, per the New York Film Festival, reads: “Co-written by father and son, the Northern England–set Anemone begins as a middle-aged man (Sean Bean) sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother (Day-Lewis).”
It continues: “Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship—one that was forever altered by shattering events decades earlier.
Anemone is also described by the film festival as “an emotional powerhouse” and a directorial debut that “is assured in both small details and grand gestures as it charts the path toward familial redemption against all odds.”
Upon the film’s announcement last year, Focus Features, the production company behind Anemone, chairman Peter Kujawski said: “We could not be more excited to partner with a brilliant visual artist in Ronan Day-Lewis on his first feature film alongside Daniel Day-Lewis as his creative collaborator.”
While Anemone is set for its world premiere at the New York Film Festival, there is currently no word on when it will receive a cinematic release.
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