When Did You Last See Your Father?
When Did You Last See Your Father? is the true story from author Blake Morrison played by Colin Firth which takes us from his childhood in the 50’s to the present day. From his perspective his father Arthur played perfectly by Jim Broadbent (currently on screen in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) was a verbose, slightly larcenous and lascivious bully but on the whole we get to see him as a man like any other who is flawed but ultimately is really a good, loving father. The grace given Blake is the terminal illness that slowly saps the life from Arthur but being at his bedside until the end quells the bile that has built up and that has been simmering for decades which allows Blake to at last really see his father. When Did You Last See Your Father? is a British drama that accurately explores the rocky relationship between sons and fathers that exist even through the most strife free adolescent years.