“Daughter of Mine” by Laura Bispuri (2018)

Movies directed by women

Facets of motherhood (5/5)

Good music (8)
Excellent script, personages, dialogues, images (9)
Top score: direction, minorities, message (10)

A 10-year old girl realizes that the woman who raised her is not her mother and discovers who her biological mother is. After a first reaction of reject, the new situation helps her accepting her own “otherness’.
The three female personages symbolize the three facets of the “patriarchal” woman: the virgin, the mother, and the whore. And to make sure the symbolism will escape to no one, all three women revolve around one man who is, at the same time, father, husband, and (ex-)lover.
Recommended!

Cast: Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Sara Casu
Director: Laura Bispuri
Writers: Francesca Manieri, Laura Bispuri
Music by Nando Di Cosimo
Cinematography by Vladan Radovic
Film Editing by Carlotta
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