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The Lost Daughter

Elena Ferrante

Now a major motion picture directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Paul Mescal, and Peter Sarsgaard Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters leave home to live with their father in Toronto. Enjoying an unexpec...

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Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

It was discussed in the context of the Oscar nominations, and the podcasters found the ending somewhat unsatisfying and a little soft compared to the book's ending.

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And in the book, it's a little bit less ambiguous that she's died maybe?

— Episode: "Birds of a Weather" (w/ Louis Virtel)

Episode: "Birds of a Weather" (w/ Louis Virtel)

It was discussed in the context of the Oscar nominations, and the podcasters found the ending somewhat unsatisfying and a little soft compared to the book's ending.

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And in the book, it's a little bit less ambiguous that she's died maybe?

Or no, she's in the hospital at the end of the book.

I think it's more ambiguous in the film.

Episode: "She Suffered... And She Is Still That Girl" (w/ M...

It was enjoyed for its focus on female characters and their experiences, particularly motherhood and anxiety. The director's decisions regarding the sound design, especially the baby's crying, were praised.

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I really enjoyed it. Loved. I loved it.

She just is my favorite type of character in the film.

The doll missing really was giving me anxiety.

Something really smart that I thought that Maggie Gyllenhaal did in order to create tension and like irritation in every scene is in this anatomy of a scene that they did, that I watched on YouTube, she was talking about how like the crying of the babies, like the volume was never lowered.

Oh, this movie made me never want to have a child.

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