Review of The Lost Daughter (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 25 Jan 2023

(Mauro Lanari).

Continuous close-ups of stressed and dissatisfied women ("depression?") while they compare their crises, an alternating montage of past and present of the most cultured of them, a university lecturer in Cambridge who, although infatuated with the existentialist absurd, becomes wife and mother to then mistreat and abandon for three years her two little daughters, guilty of havin' hindered her in career realization and extramarital affair. Emotional and psychological secrets exaggerated by the literary and intellectual matrix, found interesting by a Maggie Gyllenhaal in her feature debut for reasons that don't interest me.