Netflix has expanded its world footprint for The Misplaced Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s characteristic directorial debut that has severely change a festival favorite since bowing in Venice.
The streamer has acquired the U.K., Germany and Benelux rights to the movie — starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Dakota Johnson — from Leisure One, which had beforehand bought them from Endeavor Whine material. It already acquired advance worldwide rights — including the U.S. — earlier this yr.
In his overview, The Hollywood Reporter‘s David Rooney described the movie — a couple of girl’s seaside holiday that takes a melancholy flip when she begins to confront the troubles of her past — as a “extremely accomplished debut” following its bow in Venice, the set it acquired easiest screenplay. It moreover screened on the Telluride Movie Competition, Unusual York Movie Competition, Competition Lumière in Lyon and, most just nowadays, the BFI London Movie Competition.
Gyllenhaal tailored the script, fixed with the 2006 glossy from easiest-selling creator Elena Ferrante, with production taking web page in Greece in 2020. Peter Sarsgaard (Jackie), Paul Mescal (Unprecedented Participants), Oliver Jackson-Cohen (The Invisible Man) and Ed Harris (Westworld) moreover essential individual.
Other distributors for The Misplaced Daughter embody Empire (South Africa), Spentzos (Greece), Sena (Iceland); Bim (Italy), Vertigo (Spain),NOS Lusomundo (Portugal); Svensk (Scandinavia); Falcon (Indonesia), Inexperienced Narae (South Korea), Salim Ramia (Middle East).
Netflix plans to release the movie on Dec. 31.
