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We Shouldn’t Be Praising The Unnatural Motherhood Of ‘The Lost Daughter’
Praise around Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter” seems to indicate no condemnation of the idea of mothers abandoning their children on the basis of inconvenience.
By Luna Salinas4 min read
Based on a novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante, the film follows middle-aged college professor Leda Caruso while work-vacationing on the Italian coast. As she fixates on a family who is vacationing alongside her, especially on a young mother named Nina who struggles with her young daughter Elena, we see Leda relive her own past.