Earlier, we reported about Daniel Day-Lewis coming back from acting retirement with his writer-director son Ronan's film Anemone. A while ago, the film's distributor Focus Features dropped a still giving a first look at Day-Lewis and Sean Bean's characters in the film. Ronan Day-Lewis is directing the film with a screenplay he has written alongside his legendary actor father. The film also stars Samantha Morton in a key role, alongside Samuel Bottomley and Safia Oakley-Green. Anemone is set to have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival, which will take place from September 26 to October 13 this year.

The film explores the undoing of lives "by seemingly irreconcilable legacies of political and personal violence on a path toward familial redemption," according to the festival's official description. Its plot follows a man (Bean) reuniting with his sibling (Day-Lewis), who has long been alienated from him. The two share a complex and mysterious history that makes them forge a "fraught, if occasionally tender relationship," the festival says.

The film brings Day-Lewis back together with Focus Features after The Phantom Thread (2017), which marked his initial retirement from acting. At the time, Day-Lewis did not reveal the decision to quit acting and called it a personal choice.

Its technical team includes Ben Fordesman for cinematography, Chris Oddy for production design, and Jane Petrie for costume design. Focus Features and Universal Pictures are set to distribute it in the USA and internationally, respectively.