![]() … As a child I hoped that my father would lock her in the house and not let her go out. It was a jealousy that was based on the pure and simple fact that my mother was beautiful. About her mother, she writes: “My father … was very jealous. She is simultaneously sadistic and honest, which is perhaps why the seemingly conventional drama has been received with discomfort, even classified as a " psychological horror film."įerrante, who is anonymous and uses a pseudonym, writes about herself that way in Frantumaglia, a collection of letters and various ephemera. Leda’s feelings about motherhood are as much admissions of her own maternal failures as they are cruel presumptions about others. ![]() In Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter, available December 31 on Netflix, Olivia Colman’s Leda Caruso tells a heavily pregnant woman that “children are a crushing responsibility.” She then cheerfully wishes her a happy birthday and walks away.Ĭolman’s delivery in The Lost Daughter-a faithful adaptation of the Italian author Elena Ferrante’s book of the same name-understands something key not just about her prickly protagonist, but also of Ferrante herself: The art of the brutal retort has something to do not just with wit and brevity, but also with something confessional. ![]()
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