certain actors and actresses.... you begin to trust their choices and know the project is quality without even watching it. olivia is one. Elena Ferrante is the writer who falls in that category. so yea I'm going to watch this.
@Wes & TKP 66-02 Well, if pacing was an issue then the critics would have been all over this. That speaks to the compelling nature of the movie, which critics are normally quick to jump on. I think most people just didn't like the subject matter - kind of like Kevin Bacon's character in The Woodsman about a convicted pedophile trying to turn his life around.
@@Golf05 Quite frankly.. you're wrong. Critic reviews are pretty much off the charts, very well received.. but AUDIENCE reviews? It's down the goddamn shitter. The MAJORITY of people that watched this movie, disliked it. And let's not forget, critic reviews and ratings are usually done by ~100 people. Let's look at the metrics. On IMDB it's a 6/10. Pretty semi-average score or mixed ratings. Now on MetaCritic, critic score is "85" of 44 reviews while audience is 5/10. On Rotten Tomatoes 95% (100 critic reviews) .. Meanwhile, a staggering 44% ROTTEN audience score of hundreds of reviews. Ah, right one last one, the Google review score. 54% of users liked the film... That is EXTREMELY low. In fact, the lowest I've ever seen on Google. In general, I don't watch films below 60% on Google's audience reviews. And for something to be that low? Sorry, but the consensus is that this movie is bad. However, some people like bad movies. YOU may be one of those people and YOU are the minority.
This is the first time I've seen this trailer... and let me tell you.. I've just finished the movie and it does NOT give off the same vibe as this preview whatsoever. You'd think you're in for a dark clever twisty emotionally driven film .. but NO, you ain't. It's anything but unnerving and haunting, it's actually laughable that this trailer is describing it as that. The film tries to be multiple genres, which can work IF there was a plot and actual storytelling. The pacing is off, the dialogue is strange, the motives of everyone is just , weird? All the characters are unlikeable, none of your questions will be answered. These are just scenes haphazardly stitched together. These actors did their best with the material given, it's a pity that their best couldn't save this film. I couldn't wait for it to be over, and I will forget it exists in 2 days. Leaving this comment in hopes I can discourage people from wasting their time.
🤦♀️O M Gee I struggled with this plot!! You just don't care about any of the characters. The whole baby doll thing & flashbacks were weird & annoying, & my boy Ed Harris is barely in it!👎
Can we all just give a nod to the one & only Roberta Flack. Her song in the most telling part of this film, while Leda is cutting the orange, peeling away her guilt as she makes a decision which will define her, follow her, till her death. This song is haunting & so glorious for this scene.
@Shady Queens same. I read through the comments and I was getting desperate bc no one was saying this. Did you see the Italian version of the show? It was on HBO and really lovely (in my opinion). To take the third book and cherry pick out of the entire lineup of the series does a disservice to the enormity and perfection of the other books and their story. And then to just fill it with random not culturally appropriate actors. I love Elena Ferrante so I’m going to see this but man I am already going in with that lump of disappointment in my throat. What else did they alter for convenience sake? It’s such a beautiful story 😭
@Shady Queens so welcome. You are in for a treat. It felt like your imagination came to life watching it. I’m not sure if it finished it bc pandemic but it’s really so good. By HBO doing it, I mean an Italian director/actors/production/etc did it and HBO bought rights to show it I believe. I’m going to watch again today 😍☺️
@@elizabethk3166 I think you are mistaken. My brilliant friend series on HBO is based on four book series but The Lost Daughter is not one of them - The story of a lost child is the correct one. The Lost Daughter is one of Ferrante's first books and as for the series - they are actually working on a new season - it should come out this February :)
I read the book of this… Elena has a brutally honest writing style that I have found confronting, but not in a bad sense… if anyone saw ‘My Brilliant Friend’ which was made in (her native) Italy into a series, this follows those same girls in their later lives. MBF on screen was excellent and this made me pursue reading her other books. I will be seeing this one, though adapted to English, the cast and director should do it justice, but I believe some may find this a difficult watch. P
@@elenajtc9869 no Elena… I’m very sorry I mistakenly thought this was the movie another of her novels ‘The Story of the lost Child’ which you probably know was the last one of the books by Lenu…. I will have to fix the comment.
Thanks for recommending the My Brilliant Friend series. I’m enjoying it so much that I finally had to come back here and find your comment to tell you thanks. Also found some of her books on z- library
Elena Ferrante. One of my favourite writers. If you haven't already, please read "my brilliant friend" which is the first part of a beautiful story ending with this one.. "the lost daughter" ❤️❤️❤️
The fact that Olivia Colman is doing a praised movie after praised movie after praised movie. Phew! No one is doing it like her. And she has a HBO/BBC show coming soon too. Booked and busy queen.
Talk about family of talents..Maggie & Jake,the sibling duo always amazes me..Jake has a production company & Maggie is now into direction.People can talk about nepotism but both of them have proved when privilege is used correctly,great things happen.
SPOILER: Leda (Olivia Colman) after watching Nina (Dakota Johnson) and her daughter, takes the little girl's doll and hides it. Leda finds Nina having an affair with an employee and remembers her own affair and admits to Nina that she abandoned her daughters for 3 years after being overwhelmed. Leda buys her a hat pin and they connect. She tries to help Nina continue her affair by letting her have the keys to her rented house. She finally shows the doll and admits to Nina at the end that she took it, who freaks out and stabs her stomach with the hat pin and leaves with the doll. Leda drives away at night and collapses at a beach. The last scene shows her waking up, calling her daughter, and peeling an orange.
my only question is .. why have kids when you're no where in your career and you are ambitious? why have kids? this movie says that men can leave, women can't because society tags it as unusual basically.. thing is its not men or women thing, if u r married dnt go out for extra marital affairs and side by side have kids and think about your career later .. either man or woman,if u r ambitious.. go get it .. but FOR GOD SAKE, DNT HAVE KIDS IF U CAN'T PARENT THEM.. i find this movie is glorifying betrayal in marriage.. man or woman, nobody should do such a thing to their kids..
Well, the trailer basically implies that Colemans character left their kids because she couldn't cope with the stress, now years later she sees another mother struggling just like she did back then and is haunted by her past. At least that's what the trailer tells me and I think they are part of the mystery so basically spoil a lot of the movie but I might be wrong.
As soon as I saw him I was completely distracted lol. I almost want to say it's "too soon" for me to see him as a different character but it's been over year since the series came out.
What a bad movie old woman who get flashbacks after se sees a young mom and her jkid. In her flashbacks her kid is crying nonstoo and she apparently wasnt a good mom. Netflix needs to stepup their movies cause these days only crap is comming out. And its not getting cheaper. Waste of 2hours.
@@bibble2437 2 be honest i stopped the movie after 1 hour or so, and started to watch the girl from oslo. Maybe gona finish it with a different mindset, cause i 2 thought it would be a thriller like gone girl or the movie with casey afleck gone baby gone. I see a lot movies and i doubt i gona change my mind. For what i have seen the old woman was full of self pitty.
@@kingigz880 No, I haven't; thanks for the suggestion! I guess, I should've been more precise - she's been great in everything I have watched from her so far ☺
It feels so great to witness this part of Olivia's career after all the hard work that she has done for years. Much of it flying under most people's radar. She deserves the world!
@@gabriellagelir2027 almost half of actors out their is as good at their job as the famous ones or✨ talented✨, whatever that means, the system is rigid, the bird who is early, pretty, hungry and lucky gets the worm. She is amazing but not anymore special than others, other people juggle for 10 or 20 years.
Is it’s just me ?? Found this sooooo depressing like what’s the moral what’s the story ? I wish no one has a mom like the one portrayed here cause no child deserves a parent like this , and yes I know it’s only a movie but sometimes some of us leave with something and it’s most likely the negative , I thought it could’ve been better lovely acting though just didn’t impress at all !!!
So glad I'm not the only one🤦♀️! I just didn't care about any of the characters. My boy Ed Harris is barely in it. The whole baby doll thing & flashbacks were 2 weird!👎
I think this was a daring movie that dives into the internal conflict a woman may feel when she becomes a mother. It's very uncomfortable to watch at times, but it's refreshing to see such a raw take on a very taboo subject. I found the acting by the three women absolutely fantastic, and the picture and script adaptation to the book really struck me, even more than the book itself. Well done to Gyllenhaal, really looking forward to her next work!!
Whenever I see Olivia Colman, the first thing which comes to my mind is DI Alec Hardy shouting in a Scottish accent- M I L L E R, Broadchurch fans, I hope you get this, hahah.
This type of movie used to be made by large movie studios in the late 1970s - 1980s. But with all of the consolidation of movie studios, these movies became few and far between. If it weren't for streaming, psychological thrillers would only be made for TV projects.
From the seventies, "The Conversation", featuring Gene Hackman and John Cazale; from the eighties, "Body Heat", featuring Kathleen Turner and William Hurt.
It's a very well intentioned boring movie that hints repeatedly at what we already suspect is coming due (no pun intended). So much grandeous detail and elegence is wasted on a vital topic as the movie tries to radiate life but it is just another victim of Covid. It thinks it's subtle and great film making but the movie never moves you as it is caught up in loving itself. Some moms were not meant to be moms. But a much more interesting less claustrophic script is required though I guess it was going for a Kafkaeques feel. I guess eveyone will say I'm missing out on this wonderful movie . Oliva Coleman gives an all too exacting performance which is undone by a monotonous plot that slowly boils like a frog in hot water. It starts out interesting but after a while one can't wait for the movie to end. We don't like Oliva's character not because she's full of human fraility but because neither she nor the movie is just not that good. I'm kidding of course. great movie!
This really disappointed me, and the trailer and description on Netflix is so misleading. A slow, pointless movie about a whole lot of nothing. It's marketed as "unnerving," ""haunting," and "unsettling" and it's not.
She may be a fantastic actress, but the movie WAS HORRIBLE. The writing, specifically. Obviously written by some Hollywood writer -- people who have forgotten what the real world is like, who don't know how to properly raise children (even the ones without a nanny), people who actually TEACH small children to curse. NO, that's not acceptable to curse in front of your little kids, and have them grow up to be people whose every other word is a curse word. Education is going down hill, civilized behavior is going down hill, the world is going down hill. It's disgusting. Want to watch a psychotic woman who's always "out of it?" Watch selfish, and rude people behave that way? NONE of that is normal. I'm sure it happens in some specific areas, but... This movie REALLY disgusted me, in case you can't tell.
This movie had no plot line. No climax. No moral. Really it offered absolutely nothing. It’s not even a story. How can anyone receive funding to make a movie that lacks a concept. Really really really bad movie.
Okay so I'm 44 minutes into this movie please tell me that it gets better. It is the most dull boring movie I have ever seen. Don't think I can finish watching it it's just no action whatsoever in this movie and it's putting me to sleep.
I am sorry but why tf did she steal the doll? I have watched quite a many weird ass movies but for the life of me,what was her motive? Also the movie bored me to death.Hated the lead character so much and at some point she didn't make any sense to me.I thought she observed the young mom and took a stock of her own life but that's not the case.Wish I could get my 2 precious hours back.
I was thinking about that too! This is the conclusion I came too: Elena was treating the doll like her child, bathing her, holding her hand, etc. And Leda saw this and took the doll as a way to give herself a "second-chance" at motherhood. Almost like payback the years she spent away from her children to suppress her guilt with that choice and maybe even prove to herself that she can be a mother? Anyways, that's just my interpretation of the movie.
Maggie Gyllenhaal is one of the most underrated artist in the industry working today. She's a fantastic actress, I enjoyed many of her movies she's in. The fact that she branch out her career in becoming a writer and director and her debut so far have been doing great, i'm so proud of her. I hope people will recognise Maggie's talent a lot more just like her brother, Jake
That is a very dangerous line, given payton is one of the deadliest femme fatales of modern cinema, which is also why i understand since that film is an excellent classic.
Colman is a great actress; but, I truly find this to be one of the worst scripts ever put to film. Horrible is too nice a word to describe this mess of a movie..
It's interesting how some people are beginning to say that Olivia Colman is becoming "Overrated." I highly disagree. In my opinion, she's becoming one of the best actresses working in the business. She struggled on and off for nearly 20 years until she finally got her big break. For the past few years, I'm happy that she's been getting some great quality roles, and I hope it continues.
@callmecatalyst I agree. I wish Rachel Weisz or Emma Stone won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Of course, I have to add in the movie "Roma" as one of the best films from the 2010's. I wouldn't mind if "The Favourite" or "Roma" won for Best Picture. But the Academy had to go down the safe route and gave the award to "Green Book." Good movie, but not worthy for Best Picture. Just my opinion.
@Wes & TKP 66-02 Yeah, I think she did pretty well in the UK, I don’t think she was struggling. It is only that she got her big breakthrough in Hollywood in last few years. She will always be Sophie from Peep Show to me. But I remember watching her in many British comedies.
movie was a waste of 2 hours. starts off super slow and doesn't really pick up. lots of unnecessary scenes and about 30 minutes total of intense staring. ending was anticlimactic. you've been warned
@@oscarmaidana9294 Hope Dakota gets the recognition she deserves 🤞🏻 This week Olivia and Jessie were nominated in the Gotham awards for lead performance and supporting performance respectively
I just wasted 2 hours of my life watching this film. It will go in the category of worst films I have ever seen. I am absolutely staggered that this film actually won anything and has been promoted as something worth while watching. In addition i really found it rather disturbing how the children were treated in the film. Why would anyone want to upset a child by keeping their doll and the total lack of empathy towards her own children at times as well as her disregard for her family was so strange it doesnt make any sense. If you want to waste your life then go watch this film. A big thumbs down.
But this movie shows the terrible reality of literally 0.005% of narcissistic, sociopathic, and cruel mothers on the planet who's children are the real victims in the equation. How can you not appreciate this work of profoundly grotesque art.
@@bibble2437 appreciate grotesque art!? That's an interesting way of putting it. Its not something i would ever want to appreciate. The fact that the character is warped though is not the only reason why the film fails on many levels.
@@mac2654 Just finished watching the movie. It seems you have a narrow minded view of this movie. While I thought the movie was long and it had a couple of glitches, overall its point was something else that you didn’t quite seem to fully understand. You have probably never felt what the main character feels… the urge to escape parenthood, the need to feel confidence, the need to be successful, to be your own self, the need to mentally and physically rest, after all.
@@anahit6645 your perception of my narrow mindedness appears to be rather judgemental. Considering you dont know anything about me or my experiences its rather misplaced to assume that I have not experienced parenthood or the experiences that come with it. Besides all that your views still don't change my viewpoint that this film deserves a big thumbs down.
Gosh!! I thought I was the only one! Didn't care about any of the characters. I adore Ed Harris, but he's barely in it. The baby doll & flashbacks were just 2 weird!🤦♀️
