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Debut writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal takes big risks for her Elena Ferrante adaptation, “The Lost Daughter,” about a woman on holiday confronting her complicated years as a mother. The dark drama essentially balances two movies: one with Olivia Colman as present-day Leda, and another with Jessie Buckley as her younger self in extended flashback sequences. Exclusive to IndieWire, check out a Netflix featurette that includes interviews with Buckley, Colman, Gyllenhaal, and Peter Sarsgaard about fleshing out the younger half of the character.
“I don’t think she’s a bad mother, Leda. I would never judge her as that. I actually think she’s an incredible mother. What she gives to her daughters is to cut the cord of repression,” Buckley says of her Leda, a young mother juggling academia and two children who flirts with a possible infidelity — and a life outside her one as a wife and mom. “Her
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