Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut is complex, challenging and utterly brilliant
Leda is a middle-aged English teacher who embarks on a quiet beach holiday in Greece in the hope of getting some time to herself and catching up on some work. Her peace is shattered, however, when a large, rowdy and disrespectful family arrives to seemingly plant themselves wherever she goes.
Not because the film is so lazy as to fall for anything as distasteful and distrustful as cheap misandry or, worse, pathetic female disempowerment - this is a film by women and about women, but the male characters are largely no less complex and, with one or two exceptions, no more or less villainous than their female counterparts - but because the whole film felt like an extended panic attack.
It's all very unnerving but perhaps the most uncanny aspect of the film are the flashbacks to a younger Leda when she was still married and raising two young daughters. By every right this should be simplicity itself, even blandly obvious, but there is something very off about it all.
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