THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER
Daughter Julia (Tilda Swinton) is in for an illuminating time.
THINK OF IT AS ‘THE SOUVENIR PART III’ — BUT ALSO SPOOKY?
★★★★
OUT 27 NOVEMBER / CERT 12A / 96 MINS
DIRECTOR Joanna Hogg
CAST Tilda Swinton, August Joshi, Carly-Sophia Davies, Joseph Mydell
PLOT A filmmaker (Swinton) takes her mother (also Swinton) to a Welsh manor that rattles with painful memories, hoping to spark inspiration for a screenplay.
FOR SOME, GOING on an isolated holiday with their elderly mother is a literal nightmare. For others, becoming their mother is even worse. Unluckily for the filmmaker protagonist in The Eternal Daughter, each of these scenarios emerges: mother Rosalind and daughter Julie unwittingly rake up painful memories during a trip to a spooky rural hotel, Rosalind’s former family home; not only that, but Tilda Swinton plays them both, in dual roles.