Sunday, May 7, 2023

The Eternal Daughter (2021)

Jack and I were not big fans of what some have called a "gothic mystery" in which Tilda Swinton plays both "middle-aged" filmmaker Julie and her elderly mother Rosalind, visiting a hotel where Rosalind lived as a child. Swinton's own dog Louis is featured. There's a twist at the end.

Joanna Hogg directs from her own original screenplay and the staging is fine. The movie earned a handful of nominations and was chosen as one of the Top Ten Movies of 2022 by the National Board of Review.

No composer is credited and only six songs are listed anywhere I can find.

Swinton was last blogged for The French Dispatch. I haven't seen any of Hogg's previous work.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics are forever relating to this with a 95% average but we are more in line with its audiences at 43. We rented on Apple TV/iTunes on March 10 but now it's apparently available only for purchase on Apple TV, Prime, and Vudu.

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