Lost Daughter: Award winning director`s debut of Maggie Gyllenhaal

A woman’s beach vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront the secrets of her past.
Based by the book by Elena Ferrante who has a brutally honest writing style… if anyone saw ‘My Brilliant Friend’ which was made in (her native) Italy into a series, this follows those same girls in their later lives. MBF on screen was excellent and this made you pursue reading her other books. This type of movie used to be made by large movie studios in the late 1970s – 1980s. But with all of the consolidation of movie studios, these movies became few and far between. If it weren’t for streaming, psychological thrillers would only be made for TV projects.
This is not the case with that one which won the award at Venice Film Festival for the best screenplay.
Directed & Written by actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, the cast includes Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Ed Harris, Peter Sarsgaard, Dagmara Dominczyk & Paul Mescal.