Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series returns to exclusively reveal the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.Maggie Gyllenhaal made her directorial debut with The Lost Daughter, the adaptation of pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante’s 2006 novel.
Gyllenhaal, an Oscar-nominated actress, also adapted the screenplay and did not pull punches with the book’s provocative material.
She has already been awarded for the feat, taking the Best Screenplay prize at the Venice Film Festival where the Netflix film premiered as well as at the Gotham Awards, where the pic picked up a leading four wins overall.Olivia Colman stars as Leda, a woman taking a solo vacation at the beach after her children went
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