The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present a “Festival Flashback” of “When Did You Last See Your Father?” on Tuesday, June 29 at 4 and 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.
“When Did You Last See Your Father?” stars Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Juliet Stevenson and Gina McKee.
“When Did You Last See Your Father?” is Blake Morrison's moving and candid memoir of his father in the weeks leading up to his death. When Arthur Morrison was diagnosed with terminal cancer he had only a few weeks left to live. Morrison traveled to Yorkshire to stay with his mother in the village where he grew up.
As Blake (Colin Firth) visits his dying father (Jim Broadbent), he remembers the feeling of being overshadowed by his gregarious dad. Blake's conflicted memories roam back and forth through the 1950s, the '60s and then the late '80s, the last in which Blake is a married man with a career of his own.
Blake questions the nature of the bond between them, articulately expressing the contradictions, frustrations, love and loss bound into the complicated relationships which most of us have with our parents as we grow up.
The film was nominated for seven British Independent Film Awards, including Best British Independent Film, Best Actor (Jim Broadbent), Best Supporting Actor (Colin Firth), Most Promising Newcomer (Matthew Beard), Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
“A beautiful movie! Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent are superb. One of the warmest and gentlest films in years.” — Jeffrey Lyons, NBC-TV
“An intelligent and heartfelt film; one that deserves to be seen.” — The Guardian
"Touches movingly, enlighteningly on universal matters we can all identify with, and it does so without ever getting maudlin or sentimental.” — The Observer
“Immaculately acted, professionally helmed and saturated in period British atmosphere." — Variety