

Anemone is a 2025 psychological drama that marks two singular events in one film: the feature directorial debut of the painter and filmmaker Ronan Day-Lewis, and the return of his father, Daniel Day-Lewis, to acting after the three-time Oscar winner announced his retirement following 2017's Phantom Thread. Father and son co-wrote the screenplay, and the result is a brooding, elliptical study of masculinity, guilt, and brotherhood released by Focus Features.
Daniel Day-Lewis plays Ray Stoker, a former soldier living as a hermit deep in a remote English forest, cut off from the world by the weight of his past. Sean Bean plays his brother Jem, who treks out to find him carrying a letter from Ray's wife Nessa (Samantha Morton) pleading with him to come home and reconnect with their son. As the brothers circle one another, the film excavates Ray's haunted history during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, trading conventional plot for mood, memory, and the charged silences between two men who share everything and understand little.
Premiering at the New York Film Festival, Anemone drew a divided critical response — some found the screenplay opaque — but near-universal fascination with Day-Lewis's return and praise for Ben Fordesman's painterly cinematography. A hushed, demanding art film carried by one of cinema's most revered performers, it is streaming on Netflix.
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Anna Miko enjoys writing more than reading books. But most of all she likes to write movie and series reviews. Being fond of classic cinema, she nevertheless is the author of many research works on contemporary visual arts. She also writes short essays on new movies and series helping others to navigate the world of modern cinema.
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