VENICE, Italy : Maggie Gyllenhaal picked an unconventional novel about motherhood for her debut as a director in 'The Lost Daughter', which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Friday.In the film, Olivia Colman plays Leda, a middle-aged British literature professor vacationing on her own in Greece who
VENICE, Italy : Maggie Gyllenhaal picked an unconventional novel about motherhood for her debut as a director in"The Lost Daughter", which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Friday.
Watching them makes Leda dwell on her own emotional conflicts as the mother of two young daughters years before and the guilt-ridden decisions she made to be able to live her life. Gyllenhaal said that at first when she read the book she thought the protagonist was mentally damaged but then realised how she could relate to her.
"I think that I would be really shocked to hear that there was one mother who hadn't once thought, what if I walked out the door?"
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