Synopsis
Being a mother is a crushing responsibility.
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
2021 Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
Olivia Colman Dakota Johnson Jessie Buckley Ed Harris Peter Sarsgaard Paul Mescal Dagmara Domińczyk Jack Farthing Oliver Jackson-Cohen Panos Koronis Robyn Elwell Ellie Mae Blake Athena Martin Anderson Alexandros Mylonas Alba Rohrwacher Nikos Poursanidis Konstantinos Samaa Emmanouela Zacharopoulou Alma Stansil Daniela Babek Ellie James Isabelle Della-Porta Vassilis Koukalani Spyros Maragoudakis
Maggie Gyllenhaal Talia Kleinhendler David Gilbery Osnat Handelsman-Keren Marlon Vogelgesang Charlie Dorfman Stefanos Koutsardakis
Pie Films Endeavor Content Samuel Marshall Productions Media Finance Capital Faliro House Productions
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this kind of tore me up and ate me alive. raw and unflinching character studies on unlikable (or: realistic) women are always such a rare and welcome sub-genre but it’s like shooting in the dark to also portray motherhood specifically in such an unapologetically ugly light. good grief
Bad people are complicated. There is something dark at the centre of The Lost Daughter, a film which viciously tears apart the idealism we often have about motherhood. It is a film of mothers, but not one of love. Instead we see a rot, mothers who find children a burden. The Lost Daughter is an uncomfortable movie, with a constant unease and sense of dread. We wait to be given answers, for characters to be uncovered and exposed, and yet they aren't. This is a film which asks us to look inside ourselves and see if we can understand why the characters do what they do. Different people will feel differently about the film. Some will relate to it more…
Was distracted most of the time because I couldn’t stop thinking about Dakota Johnson’s eyeliner
only the third best film that's set on a greek island and is about motherhood (the first and second are mamma mia and mamma mia: here we go again)
liked, didn’t love. thought about ‘passing’ a lot during this? both are debut features directed by actresses and distributed by netflix and feel like they’re missing something. despite some phenomenal performances going down in both. olivia colman is obviously great. paul mescal pushes the 5 inseam agenda in a promising direction. i loved how ugly and uncomfortable this was. just wish it didn’t scream “first time feature film” (cutting between flashbacks and present day? we’ve seen it all before!!!)
i shall only be peeling my oranges like a snake from now on just as olivia colman and jessie buckley have raised me to do
Maggie Gyllenhaal's got the goods*+
(*Ed Harris dancing in a cute little hat)
(+but no seriously this is a killer debut)