*** (Three stars)
The French callsucces d’esteem” to those works that are much appreciated even if they are not massive. Well, that is the dark daughter, a film that everyone talks about and that is about a woman who goes on vacation to a Greek island and there, due to a chance encounter and a stolen doll, she re-examines the moment when she decided to abandon her young daughters, twenty years earlier.
Even if has very good moments, there are also elements that work in a “symbolic” way more in the script than in the image (the whole plot of the doll drifts into absurdity). But the real issue is discomfortto be someone who has experienced something contrary of what is supposed (only supposed) “natural”.
Beyond some formal vices (the abusive use of the camera too close to create “immersion” and “identification”), the work of Olivia Coleman allows the main idea to be fully conveyed.
