Synopsis
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
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Cast
- Olivia ColmanLeda Caruso
- Jessie BuckleyYoung Leda Caruso
- Dakota JohnsonNina
- Ed HarrisLyle
- Paul MescalWill
- Peter SarsgaardProfessor Hardy
- Dagmara DomińczykCallie
- Jack FarthingJoe
- Alba RohrwacherFemale Hiker
- Oliver Jackson-CohenToni
- 100
The Telegraph
The sheer unsparing intimacy of Gyllenhaall’s film gives its thrills an excitingly illicit quality. Watching it feels like reading someone else’s diary – and then finding yourself mentioned in its pages. - 100
The Playlist
The Lost Daughter leaves you haunted, shaken, and crushingly scarred like only the best of films are capable of doing. - 91
IndieWire
Gyllenhaal’s film is a story of self-ascribed transgression and of shame buried and turned bitterly inward, and it too, is made with such alertness to the power of cinematic language – particularly that of performance – that even as you feel your stomach slowly drop at the implications of what you’re watching, you cannot break its spreading sinister spell. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
The reclusive Italian author’s familiar themes of female relationships, sexuality, motherhood and women’s struggle to carve a professional space outside it are beautifully served in this uncompromising character study, illuminated by performances of jagged brilliance from Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley as her younger self. - 90
Screen Daily
Ultimately what makes this an unusually rewarding picture about motherhood is the fact that it shatters the binary distinction between the good mother and the bad one. - 90
TheWrap
The Lost Daughter is a masterwork in perception and all that society places upon mothers and motherhood. - 90
Variety
Through it all, Gyllenhaal assumes an unfussy, practically invisible non-style that conveys the essential (like that missing doll, visible in the background of a key scene) while privileging the performances. - 90
Time
To call The Lost Daughter an assured debut is to do it a slight disservice—assurance suggests that a filmmaker knows everything going in. What we see in The Lost Daughter is something greater: the act of discovery—of the gifts actors can bring to a story, of how to hold a complex narrative together—in progress.