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Lost Daughter, The

[Opened Dec. 31 in theaters and on Netflix.] While on sabbatical in Greece a stressed-out, divorced, 48-year-old university English literature professor (Olivia Colman) from Cambridge near Boston rents a lighthouse apartment from its longtime caretaker (Ed Harris) and flirts with a working student (Paul Mescal) in Maggie Gyllenhaal's award-winning, multifaceted, nonlinear, moving, well-acted, somber, unevenly paced, 122-minute, 2021 psychological film based on Elena Ferrante's 2006 novel, and when she meets a mother (Dakota Johnson) from New York City on the beach who has a precocious young daughter (Athena Martin), she begins to reflect on her past and her affair with a colleague (Peter Sarsgaard) as the encounter triggers disturbing flashbacks as a twentysomething, overwhelmed mother (Jesse Buckley) struggling to raise with her husband (Jack Farthing) two daughters (Robyn Elwell and Ellie Blake) who are estranged as adults (Ellie James and Isabelle Della-Porta).
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