KFC Presents: Anemone (15)
Keswick Film Club Presents: Anemone. Everyone welcome, you don't have to be a Film Club Member (members enjoy £3 off the ticket price).
Director: Ronan Day-Lewis. UK 2025 (15) 2hr 5min. In English.
We start with YOUR chance to see Daniel Day-Lewis - back after an 8 year gap - together with Sean Bean ‘and if you’d gladly spend two hours watching them have an act-off in a wood cabin, ‘Anemone’ is for you. Playing estranged brothers, their performances are riveting in a film that’s also bold, challenging and puzzling’ - Anna Smith, Time Out.
They play two brothers, Ray and Jem, in 1995, long-estranged after serving in Northern Ireland together. They are both messed up by this experience, Ray leaving his then-pregnant wife Nessa to live in this wood cabin, Jem becoming deeply religious and taking over Ray’s role supporting Nessa and Brian, the baby who has grown up to join the army himself by this time. Cue much guilt, much hurt and much anger when Jem turns up in the cabin to try to persuade his brother to come home.
The critics are split on this film, though all agree it is a huge pleasure to see Day-Lewis back where he should be (he co-wrote the script with his son Ronan who also directs here ‘clearly very talented’ - Mark Kermode), but watch Kermode and Mayo’s Take (’It’s a very powerful piece, and I did find myself in that world’) and you will agree that we just had to see this film...who doesn’t want to see Daniel Day-Lewis again?