The Lost Daughter

Dir. Maggie Gyllenhaal · · 121 min · 12/17/2021

Olivia Colman plays a middle-aged academic whose seaside holiday unearths a reckoning with her own ambivalent motherhood. A film unusually willing to grant an older woman a complicated, unresolved inner life. (Streams on Netflix.)

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