The Lost Daughter

2021
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Title: The Lost Daughter

Original Title: The Lost Daughter

Year: 2021

Info

Release Dates

  • United States: December 31 2021

Plot

Based on Elena Ferrante's novel, 'La figlia oscura', the film follows Leda, a university professor who during her vacation becomes obsessed with a young mother named Nina and her daughter while watching them on the beach. Leda begins to be haunted by her memories of her own motherhood. An impulsive act leads Leda to hide the little girl's doll and she ends up moving into the strange and ominous world of her own mind, where she will have to face once and for all the unconventional decisions she made as a young mother and the consequences that they brought.

This film is Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut. She is also a producer and screenwriter for this film. The cast includes Olivia Colman ('The Crown'), Dakota Johnson ('Fifty Shades Freed'), Jessie Buckley ('Chernobyl') and Peter Sarsgaard ('The Magnificent Seven'). The production is carried out by Pie Films ('The nursery school teacher')

In addition to motherhood, 'The dark daughter' deals with other important issues such as female sexuality, desire or femininity. Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of a supposed successful Italian writer about whom there is very little information, but who has also signed the novels of 'L'amica geniale' that have their television adaptation on HBO Max.

Awards

  • 2022 Academy Awards (Oscars): 3 0

Cast

Director:

Maggie Gyllenhaal Maggie Gyllenhaal

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Trivia

Close relationship

The director Maggie Gyllenhaal has included her husband Peter Sarsgaard in the cast of this film.

Elena Ferrante

The author of the novel 'The Lost Daughter' gave Maggie Gyllenhaal the rights to make the film with the only condition that she would be the director.

Production company

Pie Films is also the production company in 'The Kindergarten Teacher', film that stars Maggie Gyllenhaal.

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