Movie Review | The Lost Daughter: A Complex, Riveting Psychological Drama

Tailor-made from the novel by Elena Ferrante, ‘The Misplaced Daughter’ by debutante director Maggie Gyllenhall has an emotional complexity and a means of dread that makes for an intriguing and riveting psychological drama relating to motherhood.

The narrative begins on an innocuous observe with Leda Caruso (Olivia Colman), a professor, settling into her journey at a seaside resort on the fictional island of Kyopeli. A few days into her journey a boisterous family makes its presence felt on the seaside. Among the many many members of the family, Leda notices Nina (Dakota Johnson), a youthful mother, and her daughter Elina.

There’s one factor method too intense in her consider the mother and daughter as she pertains to Nina’s battle with the mounted requires of motherhood. Seeing them work collectively, Leda remembers the bond she as quickly as shared alongside together with her private daughters, Bianca and Martha.

Leda befriends Nina and takes on a motherly place, nevertheless there’s one factor amiss about their affiliation. She doesn’t know why she does points that she does. She is obsessive, compulsive, and is at battle alongside together with her private impulses.

Narrated in a non-linear format, this could be a character-driven film the place Leda’s character unravels like a mysterious page-turner. The plot is stuffed with tense present-day sequences and is interspersed with scenes from Leda’s life 20 years prior to now, when the youthful Leda (carried out by Jessie Buckley) is drained and fatigued – juggling her career and parenting two small, clingy daughters.

Gyllenhaal reminds us that there isn’t any escaping the hurt that comes with familial love, intentional or not. She navigates the emotional minefields and unsparingly tallies the cycle of psychological hurt amongst a variety of generations of neutral girls and thus makes your full course of relatable. Certain, a number of of the characters inside the film may mirror your personal experiences.

Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley, as a result of the older and youthful Leda Caruso, are pitch-perfect with their histrionics. Collectively, they convey about out Leda’s watchful and distressed, usually impulsive and sloppy, mannerisms to the fore, with excellent, pure ease, and make you’re feeling for her.

Johnson performs Nina, the youthful hassled mom unsure of what she wants in life, with a fascinating combination of languid pleasure and taut desperation. Dagmara Dominczyk as Nina’s pregnant sister-in-law Callie is sharp and vibrant.

Ed Harris, as Lyle the caretaker of the lodge the place Leda stays, Peter Sarsgaard as a result of the hot-shot film star scholar, and Paul Mescal as Will, the helpful boy on the resort, all have their moments of onscreen glory.

Complete, mounted with common manufacturing values, the film does have a few edit factors, nevertheless these could be missed.

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–By Troy Ribeiro

Film: The Misplaced Daughter
Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Cast: Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley, Ed Harris, Peter Sarsgaard, Paul Mescal, Dagmara Dominczyk and Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Streaming on: Netflix
Size: 122 minutes

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