Maggie Gyllenhaal explores the difficulty of motherhood in her directorial debut
by Amy Isackson
Dec 28, 2021
2 minutes
The new movie The Lost Daughter shows a side of motherhood that Hollywood doesn't often depict.
Its main character Leda (played by Olivia Colman) is not a monstrous parent or a saint. She's ambivalent. She has two daughters in their 20s and is a divorced middle-aged literature professor on a "working vacation" in Greece.
Based on an Elena Ferrante novel, is actor Maggie Gyllenhaal's
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