A return in the name of his father, Daniel-Day Lewis takes your breath away

After his farewell to cinema in 2017, the actor stars in Anemonea film he wrote together with the director, his son Ronan. Thanks are to be given for his rethinking of paternal love. Perfect moment to address with him the relationship with his father, the poet Cecil Day-Lewis: «The environment in which I grew up had a very profound influence on me»

More or less on page 23 of Fiorirà l’aspidistra (depending on the Mondadori editions) you come across the name of Cecil Day-Lewis. Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a 1936 novel by George Orwell. So incisive that it tends to chronicize the self-despise of the adolescent reader. That name remains imprinted because, unknown to us, it is on the same shelf as TS Eliot, WH Auden, Ezra Pound. Just to say the level. Irish by birth, poet laureate of the Queen, “that” Cecil Day-Lewis is Dani’s father