Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal. Cast: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Ed Harris, Peter Sarsgaard. 121 min. Drama.
- First and foremost: the presence of Olivia Coleman is good enough to watch a movie. Any movie.
- A middle-aged college professor/translator goes to Greece on holiday, and acts strange during social interactions. The title of the movie suggests she is traumatized from a lost daughter. But I guess Maggie Gyllenhaal (in her directorial debut) is intentionally not playing it that easy. We are shown through flashbacks the professor's life story: what she had lost, and maybe, what is actually lost in the story. The entire plot is kept vague, which brings up the question: is it vague to make it more artistic (and win awards), or is the unpalatable nature of this woman's problem the whole point of the movie? Because while I enjoyed Coleman's performance, I could not relate to her character.
- Pay attention to the last scene. There's a question of a stabbing - shown to us during the movie's opening sequence. But then again by the end, we're not sure. Could the whole movie have been the hero's imagination? This is a movie everybody should experience on their own.
MoGo's rating: 7/10
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