It is hard to stop watching this movie but I am not sure I can say I liked it. It caught my attention because of the stellar critic reviews and the setting, Greece. The film is well done. It is well acted. Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, and Ed Harris, among others are very engaging was the story of a deeply troubled woman on summer holiday in Greece unfolds. This is not a big, over the top movie, but it is not simple. Colman, is by definition, an unreliable narrator. While we learn a lot about her past and her troubles we have great difficultly understanding what is truth and what is illusion-I think the line is blurred. We also have a great difficulty understanding why Colman is the way she is, and maybe that isn't relevant to the story; however, I felt myself desiring to know more about what she was feeling and thinking. Perhaps reading the source material would enlighten me. Perhaps it would not. Regardless, the movie's performances and direction moved me but, in the end, I felt unsatisfied.
Review of The Lost Daughter
