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March 5, 2021

At the Movies: In ‘The Father,' the disorientation of dementia

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer

In Florian Zeller's “The Father,” Anthony, 80, in the grip of dementia, is a captain ready to go down with the ship. Overhearing his daughter and son-in-law contemplating a nursing home, he curses them as “rats” abandoning him. Pacing his London apartment in a bath robe, he mounts a noble resistance.

“I am not leaving my flat!” he shouts.


 
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