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The Lost Daughter (2021). Maggie Gyllenhaal鈥檚 directorial debut features Olivia Colman as Leda, a professor who becomes obsessed with a young mother and her daughter on a Greek vacation. But lurking underneath is the story of a woman who failed at blending鈥攚ho abandoned her own children for her career. The film asks: What if the stepparent isn鈥檛 the monster, but the biological parent who can鈥檛 handle the mess? ) turns the lens toward the complexities of