‘The Father’ Production Designer Peter Francis on Using Set Design to Reflect Memory Loss
Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentSony Classics awards contender “The Father” takes place inside a London apartment, and production designer Peter Francis says, “We weren’t just designing a set; it was an integral part of the storyline.”When Florian Zeller began adapting his 2014 play into a film, he resisted suggestions to “open up” the work by moving some scenes outdoors.Zeller tells Variety, “While I was writing the script, I drew a layout of the apartment, as if it was a main character. When I first met Peter Francis, I asked him, ‘What would be the apartment in your vision?’ He showed me a drawing he did.