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 Jessie Buckley Dakota Johnson Ed Harris Paul Mescal Peter Sarsgaard Dagmara Domińczyk Jack Farthing Alba Rohrwacher Oliver Jackson-Cohen Panos Koronis Robyn Elwell Ellie Mae Blake Alexandros Mylonas Nikos Poursanidis Athena Martin Anderson Spyros Maragoudakis Konstantinos Samaa Emmanouela Zacharopoulou Alma Stansil Daniela Babek Ellie James Isabelle Della-Porta Vassilis Koukalani
Olivia Colman Christos V. Konstantakopoulos Tmira Yardeni David Gilbery Courtney Kivowitz Marlon Vogelgesang
Leslie Shatz Stefanos Efthymiou Ryan Collison Leslie Bloome Patrick Cicero Joanna Fang Nick Seaman Connor Nagy Annie Taylor
Pie Films Endeavor Content Samuel Marshall Productions Media Finance Capital Faliro House Productions
La figlia oscura, ลูกสาวที่สาบสูญ, Poupée volée, Frau im Dunkeln, Karanlık Kız, La hija oscura, A Filha Perdida, Изгубената дъщеря, Temná dcera, Η Χαμένη Κόρη, La Hija Oscura, دختر گمشده, הבת האפלה, Mračna kći, Az elveszett lány, ロスト・ドーター, დაკარგული ქალიშვილი, 로스트 도터, Córka, Незнакомая дочь, Изгубљена ћерка, Втрачена донька, 暗处的女儿, 失蹤的女兒, 失去的女兒
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)
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
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!!!)