Review: Tilda Swinton meets Tilda Swinton in 'The Eternal Daughter,' a wondrous ghost story
Tilda Swinton, shapeshifting multitasker extraordinare, may be one of the few living actors who run the risk of seeming lazy if they play only one character per movie. Conniving identical twins, like the ones she played in "Hail, Caesar!" and "Okja," are a particular specialty of hers. Even showier were the three roles she pulled off in the recent "Suspiria" remake, with the help of some impressive old-age prosthetics. One day, I imagine, Swinton will beat her own personal record from the 1992 science-fiction indie "Teknolust," in which she played four roles: a scientist and her three cyborg clones.
Until then, there's "The Eternal Daughter," a suave and enigmatic haunted-house movie in which Swinton plays two women — a film director, Julie, and her mother, Rosalind — spending a December holiday in
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