“Anemone” hits digital platforms just 18 days after its theatrical release

According to CinemaDrame News Agency, Daniel Day-Lewis’s first film in eight years spent only 18 days in theaters. “Anemone”, directed by Ronan Day-Lewis, became available on digital platforms yesterday—less than three weeks after its theatrical debut. Focus Features released the film widely in about a thousand theaters across North America, but its worldwide box office gross failed to surpass $1.16 million.

Described as a story about “relationships between fathers, sons, brothers, and the bonds of family,” Anemone follows a man named Ray Stoker, who struggles with his past in an isolated region. The film also stars Samantha Morton, Sean Bean, Samuel Bottomley, and Safia Oakley-Green.

So far, Anemone holds a 55% score on Metacritic and 56% on Rotten Tomatoes. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Daniel Day-Lewis has stepped away from acting to make a film he’s never made before—a truly unpleasant one.”

During a Q&A session following the film’s screening at the New York Film Festival, Day-Lewis Sr. said his son’s feature directorial debut reignited his passion for acting: “I told myself, ‘I’m retiring because I don’t expect to ever feel that desire again.’ But I did. I’m truly grateful—and I hope to act again.”