Synopsis
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
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Cast
- Tilda SwintonJulie / Rosalind
- Carly-Sophia DaviesReceptionist
- Joseph MydellBill
- Crispin BuxtonCousin
- August JoshiTaxi Driver
- Alfie Sankey-GreenBoyfriend (uncredited)
- Zinnia Davies-Cooke(uncredited)
Recommendations
- 98
TheWrap
After the youthful splendor of last year’s The Souvenir Part II, Hogg returns with a magnificent achievement of a more inconspicuous kind: a striking phantasm of affection, regrets, and remembered accounts that might be factually inaccurate but emotionally unfeigned. - 91
The Playlist
While The Eternal Daughter manages to sell a truly spine-tingling atmosphere of ghosts, it feels closer to a thought and style experiment in the aftermath. But the film’s time-and-logic bending final reveal arrives as a gut punch nonetheless, with a restrained parting note both ethereal and lifelike. - 83
IndieWire
Where Hogg’s last two movies saw the filmmaker tracing a version of herself from memory, this one sees her tracing a memory from a version of herself. - 80
The Guardian
There’s real intimacy and emotional generosity to this psychological mystery from Joanna Hogg – a personal movie which appears to come from the same universe as her earlier Souvenir films – or one very much like it. - 80
Screen Daily
The Eternal Daughter is at its most poignant when it plunges into the personal – in Swinton’s retreating mother and faltering daughter, you can sense the director’s power growing as she continues to acknowledge herself. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
In the end, it plays a little too often like an academic pastiche of horror tropes even though its emotional core rings with resonance. - 60
Total Film
This (will’o-the-)wisp of a film is a beauty depending on the eye of the beholder; frustratingly slender yet with moments of profundity. - 60
Variety
This slight story examines the mystery of the mother-daughter bond without getting much closer to solving it, and when the mist clears is revealed to resemble the hotel it haunts, in being elegant but empty, save for those elusive echoes.
