Maggie Gyllenhaal’s feature debut as writer-director is an impressively atmospheric piece of work filled with longing and dread, and heavy with the anticipation of buried secrets about to be revealed. Deftly adapted from Elena Ferrante’s short source novel, it’s an enigmatic psychodrama that seems to teeter permanently on the brink of cataclysm. The fact that the plot itself stays largely within the confines of down-to-earth domestic reality merely amplifies the sense that we are wading into uncharted waters, and might at any moment be swept out to sea.
Olivia Colman is in her element as Leda, a middle-aged woman on
The psychological drama ‘The Lost Daughter’ has been released on the digital platform of Netflix on 31 December 2021. The directorial debut of Maggie Gyllenhaal is a haunting portrait of messy.