The Lost Daughter
Leda is a middle-aged woman, she’s spending her holidays on the sea side. Her days are marked by the obsessive presence of a young mother and her daughter. These presences unleashes a strange discomfort linked to her past. This is the synopsis in short of The Lost Daughter, based on the novel by Elena Ferrante and first feature behind the camera for Maggie Gyllenhaall, Jake’s sister, refined and intellectual actress who always did very interesting choices in her career. Secretary, for example, but she also almost reach the Oscar in 2009 for Crazy Heart. Now she decides to perpetrate the family tradition, because both her parents are filmmakers (her father Stephen did a couple of very goos movies such as Paris Trout and A Dangerous Woman).
The Lost Daughter is an all-female story that mesmerised the introducing director. «When I read the novel, some secret piece of my experience as a mother, as a lover, as a woman in the world was being spoken out loud for the first time. What would it feel like to sit next to your own mother or husband or daughter or wife as common feelings and experiences that have been kept hidden are exposed?»
She tries to give an answer to this question with this movie that is enhanced by a beautiful cast. Olivia Colman, Oscar winner for The Favourite that in Venice 2018 started its triumphant award season. She embodies Leda who can’t stop staring at the young mother played by Dakota Johnson. We meet through the story even a younger Leda played by Jessie Buckley. The Irish actress is on the rise. There’s also Ed Harris in The Lost Daughter and just like Maggie Gyllenhaal he brought his directorial debut Pollock in Venice 21 years ago. Cinema is a family business for The Gyllenhaals, then there’s also Peter Sarsgaard who, just like his partner in real life Maggie (The Dark Knight), will soon share some business with The Batman in the new movie played by Robert Pattinson and directed by Matt Reeves.
The Lost Daughter
USA, United Kingdom, Greece, Israel 2021, Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, with Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard, Jessie Buckley Lenght 121’ Distribution BIM
