The Father: Big Lessons from "little Daddy"

Film:The Father (97 min)

Writer and Director: Florian Zeller

Release date: February 2021 (USA)

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

In the course of his seminal work in the dementia care field, Tom Kitwood noted that it was impossible “ … to enter fully into the experiential frame of another person, simply because each person is unique” (Kitwood, 1997, p. 71). Kitwood went on to observe that stepping into and describing the world of someone living with dementia, particularly in the more advanced stages, involved additional complexities, given that first-person accounts typically describe the early stages of dementia...