The Lost Daughter (film)

A woman, while on a summer holiday, finds herself becoming obsessed with another woman and her daughter, prompting memories of her own early motherhood to come back and unravel her.

• Olivia Colman as Leda Caruso
  • Jessie Buckley as young Leda Caruso
• Dakota Johnson as Nina
• Peter Sarsgaard as Professor Hardy
• Ed Harris as Lyle
• Paul Mescal as Will
• Dagmara Domińczyk as Callie
• Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Toni
• Jack Farthing as Joe
• Alba Rohrwacher as Woman

Maggie Gyllenhaal acquired the film rights to the Elena Ferrante novel in October 2018, with Gyllenhaal writing and directing the adaptation.[6]

In February 2020, Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard were cast in the film.[7] In August, Paul Mescal was added.[8] In October 2020, Oliver Jackson-Cohen joined the cast of the film.[9] In November 2020, Ed Harris, Dagmara Domińczyk, Jack Farthing and Alba Rohrwacher joined the cast of the film.[10]

Principal photography began in September 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.[11][12]

The Lost Daughter had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2021.[13] In August 2021, Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film in the United States and several other countries.[3][14] In October 2021, Netflix further acquired the distribution rights in more countries, including the United Kingdom.[15] By the end of its run, it will have screened at film festivals in the Telluride,[16][17] Hamptons,[18] London,[19] Lyon Metropolis,[20] Mill Valley,[21] Montclair,[22] New York,[23] San Diego (closing night)[24] Zurich.[25] and Whistler Film Festival.[26] It is scheduled to be released in the United States on December 17, 2021, in a limited release prior to streaming on Netflix on December 31, 2021.[27][28]

At its opening night world premiere, the movie received a four minute standing ovation from Venice Film Festival attendees in the Sala Grande.[29]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 42 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A strikingly assured debut for writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter unites a brilliant cast in service of a daringly ambitious story."[30] Metacritic, another aggregator, sampled 14 critics and calculated a weighted average score of 84 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim".[31]

• The Lost Daughter at IMDb