Best Supporting Bottle Dye
On ‘The Lost Daughter.’
Two things tonight: more of my series about movies from 2021 I’m late to, and more from my Q&A with David Fincher: Mindgames author Adam Nayman. Spoilers for The Lost Daughter below — skip down to the picture of Rosamund Pike to avoid them!
The Lost Daughter ogles Nina’s onyx hair; it’s the movie’s most thrilling and beguiling accessory. The movie is about Leda (Olivia Colman) stealing dolls and exorcizing her own demons, making peace with her own awkward, incomplete motherhood. But the young, Inamorata-wearing mother Nina (Dakota Johnson) is like a mirror in which Leda polishes continuously, wishing to see herself. She sees Nina at the beach, among her rowdy, screeching Queens family and jots down her name when she hears it. She underlines it whimsically, like this is something she wants to make doubly sure not to forget. Over dinner, she casually investigates Nina’s life and family, asking about her sister and husband. But as int…
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