The Lost Daughter (2021)
Starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Ed Harris, Peter Sarsgaard, Paul Mescal, Dagmara Domińczyk, Alba Rohrwacher, Jack Farthing, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Panos Koronis, Robyn Elwell, Ellie Mae Blake, Athena Martin Anderson, Alexandros Mylonas, Nikos Poursanidis, Konstantinos Samaa, Emmanouela Zacharopoulou, Alma Stansil, Daniela Babek, Ellie James, Isabelle Della-Porta, Vassilis Koukalani, Spyros Maragoudakis
IHBM9Excellent
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
My review · Reviewed 01/01/2022
While watching this film I couldn't help but think of Gyllenhaal's character in the (extremely underrated) show "The Deuce". In that show she was a prostitute-turned-director and in many of the scenes in the movie had to do with the idea of how different film would be if made by a woman. I know that the show was fiction but I couldn't help but think back to that idea. This film starred women and seemed to have a very different feel to it than most movies that I've seen. It helps that the three leads are amazing - Colman is her usual stellar self and Buckley has cemented her place as a top actor. But beyond all of that this film really resonated with me in that I am a parent of three children and at times I feel exactly as they do. I feel overwhelmed and (worse) I feel like I have lost a piece of myself. It really is a fantastic movie.