Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Lost Daughter' Gets Warm Ovation in Venice With Jake Gyllenhaal on Hand to Cheer Her Debut". In the flashbacks, young Leda gets an opportunity to present her paper at a conference and leaves her girls with a sitter. The Lost Daughter had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2021, where Gyllenhaal won the Golden Osella Award for Best Screenplay, [7] and began a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 17, 2021, prior to streaming on December 31, 2021, by Netflix. Also, Leda discovers Nina is having an affair with a young man named Will (Paul Mescal), who works at the resort. Eventually, she is invited to attend a conference in London and she makes the difficult choice to go, leaving her kids not only with their father but also with a babysitter.

Though I can’t imagine a world without [Name] in it, I know we are all better because we were blessed with [him/her] in our lives. The Lost Daughter' review: A Greek island vacation holds some secrets in one of the year's best movies, Dec.Leda's at-first inexplicable obsession with a big, boisterous family she sees on the beach, especially the beautiful Nina (Dakota Johnson) and her often clingy little girl, leads to memories of her own fraught past as a mother and a daughter. Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who also adapted the script from Elena Ferrante’s novel of the same name, the film stars Olivia Colman as a woman whose seaside vacation becomes an unsettling reminder of her fraught past. Online memorials enable the memorial creator to collect messages, memories, tributes, and pictures in one place. Leda is a woman under siege – in the past, from the constant barrages of motherhood upon her body, sleep, time, academic career, her identity, sexiness, professional opportunities.

The fact that Buckley and Colman seem a somewhat mismatched onscreen pair matters less than it might.Indignant, Leda berates Joe for threatening to take her daughters back to England – but still doesn't stay.