The Father

The Father (2020) — watch online on iFILM. Directed by Florian Zeller and produced by Film4 and Trademark Films, this British-French drama stars Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Actor; Zeller and Christopher Hampton took Best Adapted Screenplay.

Anthony is an eighty-year-old man living alone in his London flat. He keeps telling his daughter Anne that he needs no help. But things keep slipping: his watch vanishes, a stranger sits in his living room, Anne's face seems different than it was yesterday. Zeller adapted his own stage play and built the film to put the audience inside Anthony's fracturing perception rather than watching it from a clinical distance. The floor shifts. You stop trusting what you see. Olivia Colman plays Anne with a quiet exhaustion that makes every scene land harder than it should.

Shot in 97 minutes with almost no wasted movement, the film premiered in late 2020 and won two Oscars. It's the rare kind of movie that changes what you notice about the people you love. Stream The Father (2020) online on iFILM.