Psychological-drama queen (Image via Netflix) The Lost Daughter is what might've been called a woman's picture in the '40s.
But if so, it's a real-woman's picture, one with a remarkably flawed and compelling focal character surrounded by other imperfect women, fragments and reflections of one another.
A compelling psychological profile, it is also a thriller, but only because the character its lead character is a mercurial risk junkie.
In what can only be described as a stunning debut, director Maggie Gyllenhaal has crafted a subversive story about a professor, Leda Caruso (Olivia Colman), vacationing on a Greek island who runs afoul of a mobbed-up family and of her own past when first a little girl and then the little girl's doll go