The Roads Not Taken

Friday, 11.05pm, BBC Two

Film-maker Sally Potter and her Ginger & Rosa star Elle Fanning reunited for this poignant

2020 drama about the pain of remembering. Fanning plays Molly, visiting her father, Mexican writer Leo (Javier Bardem), in his New York flat. But he has a dementialike condition that means he keeps drifting off into thoughts (or are they inventions?) of his past, which include mourning a loss with Salma Hayek’s Dolores and an encounter with Milena Tscharntke’s tourist in Greece. There’s a deep sadness to Leo as we piece together his life from these evocative fragments.