The Lost Daughter (2021)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 121 minuten
Country:
United States / United Kingdom / Israel / Greece
Directed by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Stars: Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Jessie Buckley
IMDb score:
6,7 (82.090)
Releasedate: 15 December 2021
The Lost Daughter plot
"Being a mother is a crushing responsibility."
Professor Leda is on vacation by the sea when she notices the younger Nina. She develops an obsession for the lady and her daughter and observes their relationship and pursuits. In this way, Leda is reminded of her trauma around motherhood. She is confronted with the choices she made in the past.
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Leda Caruso
Young Leda Caruso
Nina
Lyle
Will
Professor Hardy
Callie
Joe
Female Hiker
Toni
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mrklm
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- 12190 messages
- 10362 votes
48-year-old Leda [Olivia Colman] is a British-born but US-based professor of Italian literature who seems ready to burst into tears at any moment during her vacation in Greece. Both the title and her interest in pregnant Nina [Dakota Johnson], a young mother, give an indication of where her grief comes from. In flashbacks, we discover how Leda [Jessie Buckley] struggled to raise her own daughters Bianca [Robyn Elwell] and Martha [Ellie Mae Blake] and how that affected her relationship with Joe [Jack Farthing]. Ed Harris plays the charismatic janitor who tries to make Leda come out of her shell. Gyllenhaal regularly chooses to film the scenes in such a chaotic way that as a viewer you are left with unstable cameras and half heads with sometimes even the eyes cut in half), something that is really so disturbing and looks so amateurish that I thought the aspect ratios are wrong. Other than her hair color and accent, Buckley looks nothing like Colman and Leda's eccentric behavior makes it very difficult to identify with her. But give her a drink and she talks to a complete stranger half her age about breast implants and the like. Good play by Johnson and Harris helps, but this is not very convincing.
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UmbraVitae
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- 4471 messages
- 4179 votes
Jesus, how boring can a movie be and such annoying characters, especially that Leda
sheer annoyance and boredom this movie had to offer.
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Ebenezer Scrooge
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- 2150 messages
- 3092 votes
Nice.
Gyllenhaal does not reveal everything and always leaves the viewer in the dark, even at the end things remain unanswered. Characters who occasionally behave strangely. I do like that mysterious, as life is in fact.
The camera is close to the skin, which makes it more intimate. Played natural, but not so natural that it becomes too realistic.
Actually, especially the first hour, I was nervously waiting for something very bad to happen.. "As long as she doesn't hurt her children or something..", I kept thinking, and we kind of Trainspotting/ having baby in heroin syringe scene that you will never get off your retina. The reason why I never have to see that movie again, no matter how much I like it.
Only the 'whining' of the children, especially in the flashbacks, became just a bit too much for me at a certain point.
Beautiful game by Olivia Colman. I hadn't even recognized Dakota Johnson. What a difference from Fifty Shades of Grey.
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