Sheffield, England. Jem lives with his partner Nessa and her teenage son, Brian. For some time, the boy has been confused and angry, having nearly beaten up a boy his own age. So Jem sets off on his motorbike and heads into the bush. He carries only a password, some geographical coordinates, and the goal of bringing home his brother Ray, who has been self-exiled from his family and society for years, because Brian needs him now.
"Anemone, the long-awaited debut film by the son of an artist and now revealed talent Ronan Day-Lewis – co-written with his father Daniel Day-Lewis – deservedly belongs to that category of films [...] capable of going beyond the static, the measured pace, the meticulous (or obsessive) work on the image; Ronan is a painter, and the gaze generated by the camera declares it from the very first minutes. Ben Fordesman's photography is splendid in this sense – and again the effective imbalance between what the writing reveals and what the bodies and faces of the actors on stage choose, at times, to obscure, at other times to illuminate. [...] Between Terrence Malick's Three of Life and Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. From now on, among the most interesting and anomalous auteur gazes of recent years of cinema. We await the next one." (Eugenio Grenna)
