After Christopher Hampton saw Zeller's dementia drama on stage in Paris, neither language, finance nor another film adaptation could thwart their collaboration on the screenplay I first met Florian Zeller about eight years ago. It was in the foyer of the Théâtre Hébertot in Paris, where I had just watched his play The Father, directed by Ladislas Chollet, with the astonishing 88-year-old French actor Robert Hirs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM on September 7, 2021