Legendary actor Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of his early retirement as the three-time Oscar-winner returns to the screen with a role in Anemone, the feature directorial debut of his son Ronan Day-Lewis.
Co-written by the duo and set to premiere at the New York Film Festival next month, Anemone is described as “an absorbing family drama about lives undone by seemingly irreconcilable legacies of political and personal violence.”
Taking place in the North of England, the film sees Sean Bean as “a middle-aged man who sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother (Day-Lewis). 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.”
Along with Day-Lewis and Sean Bean, Anemone also features Samantha Morton (The Walking Dead), Samuel Bottomley (The Last Rifleman) and Safia Oakley-Green (Out of Darkness). It will mark Day-Lewis’ first film since 2017’s The Phantom Thread, which he’d previously announced as his final film role, and will premiere at the New York Film Festival this month ahead of a release by Focus Features.
