The Eternal Daughter

Director: Joanna Hogg

2022 / 96min / 4K DCP

Arriving at an hotel in the fogbound Welsh countryside where everything seems ever-so-slightly off and things go bump in the night, a middle-aged filmmaker and her elderly mother embark on a journey into their shared and individual pasts in Hogg’s radical reimagining of the gothic “Old Dark House” thriller, with Tilda Swinton—in her fourth outing with the director—giving one of the most astonishing and versatile performances in a career that doesn’t lack for them. “A lovely and haunted dream of a movie… Doesn’t as much conform to the [ghost story] genre template as playfully nip at its edges… The mother and daughter, their differences, similarities, tenderness and love are the story, which Hogg fills in with chatter, reminiscences, precise details, private rituals and lingering looks.” —Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Distributor: A24