Netflix currently has the #3 movie on Netflix in the US. It is an original film that Netflix released in the last days 2021. The release of this movie caps a year-long film release schedule that saw at least one new original movie released every week. We had everything by the end. MankTo Da 5 Bloods, The more they fall,And The Power of the DogTo name but a few, there’s the following: Five days into the new year, meanwhile, and everyone is still talking about Netflix’s last unmissable original movie from mid-December — The Lost Daughter.
Starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson The movieMaggie Gyllenhaal, who made her directorial debut in this role, wrote the script. The script was taken from Elena Ferrante’s novel.
The Lost Daughter Netflix movie
The movie’s overarching theme is motherhood, as you can see from the title. It’s also a theme of its source material. “How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they’re at least 50,”Ferrante writes one time in the novel. “To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say: I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.”
Colman is the star of the movie “Leda,”One woman, alone on a beach vacation. She becomes engulfed by a young mother and her daughter as they walk along the shore. Leda is reminded of her complicated emotions as a mother, both in their relationship and with their extended families.
From Netflix’s summary: “An impulsive act shocks Leda into the strange and ominous world of her own mind, where she is forced to face the unconventional choices she made as a young mother and their consequences.”Also included in the cast are Jessie Buckley (Ed Harris), Peter Sarsgaard, Dagmara Donczyk, and Paul Mescal.
Reactions and reviews
- The New Yorker: “Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter is Sluggish, Spotty, and a Major Achievement”
- Vulture: “The Pitiless Excellence of The Lost Daughter”
- The Guardian: “The Lost Daughter review — Olivia Colman compels in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s eerie psychodrama”
Over at Rotten TomatoesThe movie received a 95 percent rating from critics. However, audiences seem to have had a totally different reaction to the movie. It’s currently got an abysmal 44 percent score on the review site (based on more than 250 ratings).
“A great cast wasted on a boring story that goes nowhere,”Read one 2-star user review. “It promises some suspense or even horror but ends up delivering nothing but a bunch of unlikeable people. I couldn’t wait for it to end but watched until the end in the vain hope that there was going to be something to make the whole journey worthwhile in the end. Alas, I was disappointed.”