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We are coming to the end, we hope, of a melancholy season. There are a number of films in theatres and streaming currently which deal with the slow winding down of a life and the effect it has on family. Include in that Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari , a memoir of a Korean family’s move to farm in Arkansas in the 1980s, and Falling , actor turned director Viggo Mortensen’s story of a grown gay son coping with a hateful father in Los Angeles. The best of them is The Father , with Anthony Hopkins, like us, cooped up in his apartment and losing his sense of what’s what and who’s who. Some years ago, I interviewed Anthony Hopkins at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland. He was 69 then and said that at the turn of the millennium he had arrived at a place where he no longer cared what people thought. He'd ended his marriage of 30 years, ran off and married a San Francisco antiques dealer, gave up his British passport and became an American citizen. I met him shortly after he made The World’s