Daniel Day-Lewis’ son Ronan on directing his father in Anemone: “It was still intimidating”

Anemone was shot on Anglesey, off the coast of Wales, for several long months, but it’s set in rural northern England. Ronan wanted “that feeling of someone kind of living at the edge of the earth,” he explains. Much like England itself, the characters and the film seem haunted, and definitively shaped by their history, the present’s psyche in constant negotiation with the past. This haunting also holds a physical manifestation throughout the film, a lurking, foreboding storm; “The storm cloud suspended over everything in terms of literally the weather but also as the past pooling up right underneath the skin of it,” Ronan explains.