Frances MACDONALD Walker

Cerebral? I think not. There was nothing here that challenged my brain, just my tolerance. I don’t think OC acquitted herself well at all ; the fluctuating accent and unconvincing portentous gravitas. I hung on for dear life to the end, with the expectation that those of a higher intellect than me couldnt be wrong in the homages paid through their reviews. Well, if the film is about anything, I don’t know what it is. If there was symbolism, I didn’t understand it and if there was any purpose at all behind this gathering of superficial stereotypes within this non-plot, it is lost on me. Unless, of course, eureka, that’s it...perhaps ’hell is other people’ and they all got themselves involved in the conundrum that is, The Lost Daughter. The one star is for the pine cone...