It comes as no surprise that for her feature directorial debut Maggie Gyllenhaal would choose the challenging job of adapting Italian author Elena Ferrante’s searingly compact novel The Lost Daughter which just made its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival and next heads to Telluride this weekend.It centers on the kind of strong but complicated and even haunted female character that Gyllenhaal has often drifted to in her own acting choices, and by landing Olivia Colman to play a woman alone on a seaside vacation experiencing moments of reckoning and dark memories for a life altering choice made decades earlier, she has crafted a memorable first film that takes its own liberties with the book (the location is moved from Italy to
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