Anemone

Anemone

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  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 2025-10-02
  • Runtime: 125 minutes
  • : 6.3
  • Production Company: Focus Features
  • Production Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
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6.3/10
6.3
From 59 Ratings

Description

Middle-aged Jem sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother Ray. 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.

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  • Manuel São Bento

    4
    By Manuel São Bento
    FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://talkingfilms.net/anemone-review-a-visually-grand-emotionally-impenetrable-return-for-daniel-day-lewis/ "Anemone will go down in history for marking the return of a legend whose potential was, for the most part, wasted. Ronan Day-Lewis' debut exhibits remarkable aesthetic courage and unbridled ambition, but his insistence on symbolism and pretentiousness robs the audience of any chance to establish a lasting emotional connection. Daniel Day-Lewis' mastery is transformed into an artistic sacrifice, where infinite monologues become pieces of a puzzle never clarified or completed. It's a movie that uses personal trauma as raw material but fails to make us feel the weight of that pain, ultimately becoming a visually sublime prison where trauma manifests as the silence that, when finally broken, only screams to itself." Rating: C-

  • CinemaSerf

    6
    By CinemaSerf
    “Jem” (Sean Bean) leaves his home in the early hours and sets off on his motor bike deep into the forest where, armed with only some scribbled latitude and longitude, he arrives at the very remote house inhabited by “Ray” (Sir Daniel Day-Lewis). It is immediately clear that there’s some sort of relationship between these two men, but to call it taciturn might be too enthusiastic. They now proceed to spend a few days together and we discover a little of the nature of their pasts, their presents and what “Jem” hopes will be a future that might help out the angst-ridden young “Brian” (Samuel Bottomley) who lives with his mother “Nessa” (the under-used Samantha Morton) and who is missing quite a few answers about his childhood. Some of the pieces of this human jigsaw puzzle are provided here, but even then we don’t really get a chance to get to know either man as they spar amongst the trees in what might be the wettest place on Earth. It touches on the “troubles” and some of their ensuing trauma but with nowhere near enough substance to engage until one heartfelt conversation at the close that, again, managed to underwhelm. The characteristically wooden Bean has hardly any lines to remember and the more general paucity of informative dialogue left me increasingly uninterested in these undercooked and shallow personas that left me wanting until, well I simply stopped wanting. Perhaps it was the relentless rain that dampened my enthusiasm, but I felt nothing for these two men and I was really quite disappointed with this.

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