‘The Lost Daughter’ Review

Maggie Gyllenhaal makes quite the impression with a messy but highly atmospheric adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel.

When dutiful housewife Nora Helmer decided to leave her husband and two young children at the end of Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play A Doll’s House, enraged censors demanded that Ibsen write a new ending. She was dubbed a “peculiar, eccentric woman” for deciding that it was time, for the first time, to put her own happiness…

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