Daniel Day-Lewis leaves his retirement for “Anemone”, his son’s first movie

Daniel Day-Lewis had announced his film retreat in 2017, but the actor with the three Oscar is finally back on the screen Anemonepresented on Monday in New York and co -written with his son Ronan.

“I never wanted to withdraw anything! I just wanted to work for something for some time,” said British-Irlandic actor in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine at the beginning of September. “In retrospect, I better stay silent, that’s safe.”

The desire to work with his son, a painter and now a filmmaker, revived the flame with Daniel Day-Lewis, 68, particularly selective in his roles of roles.

“When my father offered me to establish a project together, we began to think about different ideas. It turned out that he was also fascinated by the issue of fraternity,” he returned about Ronan Day-Lewis, 27, presenting the feature film he made at the New York Film Festival on Monday.

Together, they wrote the meeting, in the middle of a forest in the north of England, between two brothers, one of which he saw.

“We were particularly interested in the silences that can exist within the brothers, and that are of various types,” develops the young director, whose training in plastic arts is visible in the film, with an image worked.

Magnetic intensity

Among these silences full of a very present soundtrack, the character played by Daniel Day-Lewis gives his secrets to his brother (Sean Bean, seen in The Lord of the Rings AND game of Thrones) During long monologues.

At first, it was not determined which of the two would play the actor. “The choice became unconsciously” during writing, he recalls. “It has become a natural extension of my work. I began to enter the paper.”

Strength of the film, the viewer follows the duo in a constant crest line between complicity and confrontation.

“Ronan’s experience has just grows in a brother, mine comes from the observation of a brother,” says the father of three children: “The complicity and provocations that become violent disagreements, then reconciliation.”

If the criticism welcomes the performance of Daniel Day-Lewis, whose “magnetic intensity remains unchanged” for the Hollywood Reporter, Anemone He did not conquer it, Variety described the feature film as “Morne Film of Art and essay.”