The first trailer for forthcoming drama Anemone has been released, offering a glimpse of Daniel Day-Lewis’s screen comeback after eight years.
The triple Oscar-winner retired from acting in 2017 after completing Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread which, he said, left him “overwhelmed by a sense of sadness” during filming.
“Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor,” read a statement at the time. “He is immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and audiences over the many years.”
He had previously stepped back from the profession in 1997, after shooting The Boxer, when he took up a new career as a shoemaker in Italy. He then returned to make Gangs of New York with Martin Scorsese in 2002.
Anemone is the debut feature of Day-Lewis’s son, Ronan, 27, who has previously worked primarily as a painter and made two short films, in 2016 and 2017.
The two men co-wrote the script, which distributors describe as exploring “the complex and profound ties that exist between brothers, fathers, and sons”. The film has been produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B outfit, and will premiere at the New York film festival in October.
Widely perceived to be one of the finest actors of all time, Day-Lewis won Oscars for his roles in My Left Foot, Lincoln and There Will Be Blood.
Other films include The Age of Innocence, My Beautiful Laundrette and The Last of the Mohicans.
In 2005, Day-Lewis starred in The Ballad of Jack and Rose, directed by his wife (and Ronan’s mother), Rebecca Miller.
Anemone is set in Yorkshire in the late 1980s and concerns the fate of two brothers who served as British paramilitaries in Northern Ireland 20 years before.