The Lost Daughter. 2021. USA/Greece. Written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. With Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley. In English and Italian; English subtitles. 121 min.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut is a striking adaptation of the 2006 novel The Lost Daughter, by anonymous literary sensation Elena Ferrante. Leda (Olivia Colman), a professor on summer holiday, intends to spend her days at the beach in solitude, until a raucous family descends on the same resort. Leda quickly becomes fixated on a preoccupied young mother, Nina (Dakota Johnson), and her small daughter. As the sun-drenched days go by, rising tensions between Leda and Nina’s family dramatize both women’s complicated experiences with motherhood. The Lost Daughter is both the first feature-length Ferrante adaptation directed by a woman and the first English-language screen adaptation of the author’s work, and Gyllenhaal’s powerful style proves an ideal match for Ferrante’s voice.