If an actor’s much-anticipated return after a nearly a decade in self-imposed retirement counts as a “cinematic event,” then three-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis’ (Lincoln, There Will Be Blood, My Left Foot) above-the-title role in his director son Ronan’s feature-length debut, Anemone, undoubtedly qualifies. Both paradoxically overlong and underdeveloped, Anemone unsurprisingly gives Day-Lewis an intense, brooding role worthy of his prodigious talents while failing to surround him or an incredibly talented cast, including Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, and relative newcomer Samuel Bottomley, the nuanced, layered story their characters — and by extension, the actors embodying those characters — fully deserve. Anemone opens in enigmatic promise as Bean’s character, Jem Stoker, ominously prepares for a journey that will him take far away from...
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