The Father (2020)

With his role as the conveniently named Anthony, 83 year old Sir Anthony Hopkins became the oldest person every nominated for an Oscar as Best Actor. Adapted from French playwright Florian Zeller's 2012 play "Le Père" , "The Father" has Hopkins playing a man succumbing to dementia. The 'Trick' of the film is that it is presented from Anthony's ever changing point of view. Sometimes the flat he lives in is his own, sometimes it is said to belong to his daughter, sometimes his daughter is played by Oliva Coleman, sometimes she is played by Oliva Williams, sometimes she's divorced, sometimes she is married, and when she is married sometimes it's to one man, and sometimes it's to another. It's an effective way of conveying the disoriented state that dementia is, and how freighting it must be to live in it, never quite able to get ones bearings. It's a heck of a performance and inventive film.  The movie reminded me of the last years of my grandfathers life, when he was suffering from many of the same symptoms. ****