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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Lost Daughter’ Is “A Searing Portrait Of Parenthood” Saying Things We’ve “Never Heard Anyone Say Out Loud”

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The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, is “a searing portrait of parenthood, about womanhood, but about so much more than that,” says producing partner Endeavor Content’s creative executive Negeen Yazdi.Searing is right.

The film, adapted by Gyllenhaal from Elena Ferrante’s novel of the same name, follows the middle-aged Leda (Olivia Colman) when her solo vacation takes a turn following an encounter with Nina (Dakota Johnson), a young mother whose struggles remind Leda of her own traumatic experience of motherhood.

Startling honest and gratifyingly raw, the depiction via flashback of the younger Leda (Jessie Buckley)’s struggle to raise her daughters explores issues rarely seen on screen, much less discussed.“It’s so

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