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The Lost Daughter
Directed by
Maggie Gyllenhaal
R
2021
2h 2m
Drama
6.7
94%
56%
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A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.
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Cast of The Lost Daughter
Olivia Colman
Leda Caruso
Jessie Buckley
Young Leda Caruso
Dakota Johnson
Nina
Ed Harris
Lyle
Paul Mescal
Will
Peter Sarsgaard
Professor Hardy
Dagmara Dominczyk
Callie
Jack Farthing
Joe
Alba Rohrwacher
Female Hiker
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Toni
Panos Koronis
Vasili
Robyn Elwell
Bianca
Ellie Mae Blake
Martha
Alexandros Mylonas
Professor Cole
Nikos Poursanidis
Male Hiker
Athena Martin Anderson
Elena
Spyros Maragoudakis
Rough Boy 1
Konstantinos Samaa
Rough Boy 2
Emmanouela Zacharopoulou
Woman at Ticket Window
Alma Stansil
Babysitter
Daniela Babek
Female Italian Scholar
Ellie James
Older Bianca
Isabelle Della-Porta
Older Martha
Vassilis Koukalani
Maurice (uncredited)
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director / Writer / Producer
Elena Ferrante
Writer
Talia Kleinhendler
Producer
Osnat Handelsman-Keren
Producer
Charlie Dorfman
Producer
The Lost Daughter Ratings & Reviews
Rowan Krzysiak
February 13, 2025
A multi-layered tale of consequence, doubt and regret. People will encroach on your life and some are deserving of more time than others. Highly recommended.
The New Republic
Jo Livingstone
It addresses the impossible, ordinary, maddening task of keeping both yourself and a child alive.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
The end is deeply ambiguous, neither punishing nor condoning its characters' behavior. It simply asks us to sit with them - to pay them the respect of attention, and learn something about ourselves in the process.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Tim Cogshell
Another fantastic performance by Olivia Colman.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Whatever the conventions and shortcuts of literary adaptation that the movie reflects, Gyllenhaal has thrown down a gauntlet to filmmakers and producers, to the movie industry at large, and to the future of the art.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Alison Willmore
No one says what they mean in Maggie Gyllenhaal's astonishing directorial debut The Lost Daughter, but everything they do say is loaded with meaning.
Polygon
Robert Daniels
The Lost Daughter, a sharply crafted, clear-eyed interrogation of less-than-likable parents, ebbs and flows on the strength of this reality, along with a few immense performers from its veteran ensemble.
Salon.com
Gary M. Kramer
"The Lost Daughter" certainly raises as many questions as it answers, which is why it is so gratifying.... Gyllenhaal's film is mysterious too. It sinks its hooks into viewers and does not let go.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
It's an auspicious debut from Gyllenhaal, who observes every little moment with intense focus, and another riveting performance from Colman, who develops a wrenching portrait of motherhood with quiet, chilling intensity.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The Lost Daughter is a triumph of adaptation for writer and first-time feature director Maggie Gyllenhaal. Her film, relocating the novel's southern Italian setting to a Greek island, spins a subtle web of intrigue. "Subtle," however, doesn't mean calm.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Equal parts troubling and affecting, Leda epitomizes a type of woman whose needs are rarely addressed in American mainstream movies. We can dislike her, but we are never permitted to revile her.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Chris Hewitt
The Lost Daughter is tough-minded in its emotional approach but Gyllenhaal directs with tenderness and curiosity. She has made a movie that asks a lot of compelling questions, with the biggie being, "Isn't motherhood hard?"
Rolling Stone
K. Austin Collins
Colman brings Ferrante's creation to life with all the withering pathos she deserves. Gyllenhaal catches it handsomely, awe-struck, as if even she didn't know how painfully real this woman Leda could seem or, in Colman's hands, be.
ABC News
Peter Travers
Thank Maggie Gyllenhaal, in a stunning debut as director and screenwriter, for creating one of the year's very best movies starring the magnificent Olivia Colman as a mother haunted by her troubled past. This, you do not want to miss.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
It's quite a high-wire act [director Maggie Gyllenhaal] achieves here.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
It's the kind of movie that haunts you for a while afterward, like clouds that hang in the sky long after the storm has passed.
Entertainment Weekly
Joshua Rothkopf
It's a moviegoing experience, sure - and if you need to hear it, one of the best of the year. But it's really a call to compassion, which makes it transcendent.
Observer
Emily Zemler
There is perhaps no relationship more fraught than that between a mother and her daughter, and in The Lost Daughter that tension becomes so brittle it snaps.
Mashable
Kristy Puchko
Savage, sophisticated, and sensual, The Lost Daughter is a psychological thriller that will titillate and terrify, then leave you stranded to pick up the tattered pieces.
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Ty Burr
One of the year's very best movies - a spookily complex character study of a woman who's either a terrible mother or who can't forgive herself for not being a better one.
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