121 mins |
Rated
M (sex scenes, offensive language & content that may disturb)
Silencing audiences at the 2021 Venice Film Festival like they’d been struck by a plank to the head, Maggie Gyllenhaal might easily have chosen more palatable material for her directing debut – but it could not have been more searingly memorable than her adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novella on motherhood gone astray.
“Olivia Colman gives a powerhouse turn in The Lost Daughter, prickly and combustible as Leda Caruso, a middle-aged languages professor on a working holiday in Greece. In flight from her past, possibly from herself, she stares at the sea as though it’s done her a great wrong and eats alone at the bar, repelling anyone who draws close. She haunts the resort like a ghost while other ghosts are haunting her." The Guardian
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Silencing audiences at the 2021 Venice Film Festival like they’d been struck by a plank to the head, Maggie Gyllenhaal might easily have chosen more palatable material for her directing debut – but it could not have been more searingly memorable than her adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novella on motherhood gone astray.
“Olivia Colman gives a powerhouse turn in The Lost Daughter, prickly and combustible as Leda Caruso, a middle-aged languages professor on a working holiday in Greece. In flight from her past, possibly from herself, she stares at the sea as though it’s done her a great wrong and eats alone at the bar, repelling anyone who draws close. She haunts the resort like a ghost while other ghosts are haunting her." The Guardian