In “ Anemone ,” which marks the return of Daniel Day-Lewis to the big screen after his retirement eight years ago (he needn’t be ashamed of reneging on that — it just places him in the category of rock stars like David Bowie), the fabled 68-year-old actor plays a grizzled hermit with a silver-gray buzzcut and a handlebar mustache who lives in a cabin in the woods in the north of England. The character’s name is Ray, and he’s lugging around a couple of Big Secrets — though as the film starts to shade in his identity, you may think his principal secret is that in a past life he was at the center of a middling ’90s art-house film produced by Miramax.

“Anemone” — we’ll get to that title in a moment, but for now just know that it’s pronounced uh-NEM-uh-nee — is not a movie with a lot o

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