Many of the reviews reproach the film for its lack of mystery, suspense or horror, as if it were a thriller. A "ghost" movie does not necessarily have to be a scary movie. The director is exploring the memory and recollections of a woman who spent part of her childhood in a country house during the Blitz. She is accompanied by her daughter, a filmmaker who wants to turn that recovered memories into a future screenplay (both characters come from the previous "Souvenir I and II" films). Hogg flirts with the gothic atmosphere of certain English cinema, but her search and interests are very different. A major work, complex and fascinating, with a superb double performance by Tilda Swinton. Deeply moving, with eternal questions about love, what we are for our parents, what mothers want for their children and how to reconcile those expectations with life.
Review of The Eternal Daughter
