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- The Lost Daughter is a 2021 psychological drama film.
- It was written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
- This is her feature directorial debut.
- The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante.
- The film stars Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Dagmara Domińczyk, Jack Farthing, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, with Peter Sarsgaard, and Ed Harris.
- Colman also serves as an executive producer on the film.
- The lead character of Leda is borrowed from the W. B. Yeats poem Leda and the Swan, which is in turn based on Greek mythology.
- The Lost Daughter had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2021.
- Gyllenhaal won the Golden Osella Award for Best Screenplay.
- It began a theatrical limited release in the United States on December 17, 2021.
- Then the movie was released on Netflix on December 31.
- The film received acclaim from critics.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal acquired the film rights to the Elena Ferrante novel in October 2018, and wrote and directed the adaptation.
- In February 2020, Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard were cast in the film.
- In August, Paul Mescal was added.
- In October 2020, Oliver Jackson-Cohen was cast as well.
- Ed Harris, Dagmara Domińczyk, Jack Farthing and Alba Rohrwacher joined in November.
- Principal photography began in Spetses, Greece, in September 2020.
- At its opening night world premiere, the movie received a four-minute standing ovation from Venice Film Festival attendees in the Sala Grande.
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of 181 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8/10
- . The website’s critical consensus reads, “A strikingly assured debut for writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter unites a brilliant cast in service of a daringly ambitious story.”
- Metacritic, another aggregator, sampled 46 critics and calculated a weighted average score of 86 out of 100, indicating “universal acclaim.”
- Maggie Gyllenhaal said Elena Ferrante (the author of the source novel) only approved of the film’s adaptation if it would be directed by a woman.
- Dakota Johnson dropped out of Don’t Worry Darling (2022) to appear in this film.
- Director/Writer Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard are married in real life.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal’s feature film directorial debut. She earlier also directed her husband Peter Sarsgaard in a short film for the series Homemade (2020).
- After some speculation, it has been confirmed that it will premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 3, 2021.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal very much wanted to shoot on celluloid film, however the budget could not afford it.
- Leda states that she is 48 in the film. Olivia Colman was 47 years old at the time of the film’s release. She will turn 48 on January 30, 2022.
- The film screened at film festivals in the Telluride, Hamptons, London, yon Metropolis, Mill Valley, Montclair, New York, San Diego (closing night) Zurich. and Whistler Film Festival.
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