When Did You Last See Your Father?

Adapted from poet Blake Morrison's best-selling memoir by screenwriter David Nicholls and directed for the screen by Anand Tucker, And When Did You Last See Your Father? explores -- like its source material -- the complex, manifold emotional layers of a father-and-son relationship as it shifts and ...more

In his previous film, Shopgirl, director Anand Tucker found gloominess in nearly every interaction between Steve Martin and Claire Danes, resulting in a tone that ranged from melancholy to downright lugubrious. The gravitas is still there in When Did You Last See Your Father?, but it feels germane to the material this time, both more organic and better earned. In the hands of Tucker and the two stars, Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent, poet Blake Morrison's memoirs take on a powerful universality. ...more