When Did You Last See Your Father By William Frederick Yeames. From The World's Greatest Paintings, Published By Odhams Press, London, 1934. Poster Print (20 x 10)

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A reviewer for The Illustrated London News felt this was an important picture but disliked its colouration:

The film was nominated for seven British Independent Film Awards, including Best British Independent Film, Best Actor (Jim Broadbent), Best Supporting Actor (Colin Firth), Most Promising Newcomer (Matthew Beard), Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

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The critic of The Saturday Review was one of the few who thought Yeames had failed to reach the standard required in either his conception or execution of this work: His presence also makes the scene more official as the interrogation is clearly being carried out as if it were a court case. The title of the painting is ‘And when did you last see your father?’– so we can guess that he is being questioned as to the whereabouts of his father. My mother’s fear of the chaos she’ll inherit is understandable, though I know she is really saying something else. She dreads the paperwork because paper will soon be all that remains of him.”

I watch the Escort pull away and feel angry with myself that I didn't insist on seeing the scalpelling out of the pacemaker. I wanted to know if I could take that. I wanted to stand there while his body was opened up, his skin slit open, and not faint or be squeamish or feel that wince in the stomach that the sight of blood brings. Sang-froid: I wanted to prove that I possessed it, that I could be a doctor like him. We know that this man is a sergeant because he is carrying a halberd and they were always carried by sergeants from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.Jim Broadbent was nominated for the London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor but lost to Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood.