Daughter of Mine
Strand Releasing | Release Date: February 1, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1
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90
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJan 31, 2019
Daughter of Mine is a triptych of vivid characters and superb performances (including that of young Sara Casu), a study in contrasting and competing passions. Read full review
90
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJan 31, 2019
Ardent and primal, Daughter of Mine addresses complicated ideas with head-clearing simplicity. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid Ehrlich
While some of Bispuri’s scripting can be a bit too pointed for a story that traffics in such elemental textures (a brief flashback scene is particularly ill-advised), the film renders each of Vittoria’s mothers with such riveting and unvarnished empathy that you hardly even notice how their daughter is growing up before your eyes, stronger than the both of them. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJan 31, 2019
Mothers are complicated. Children are complicated. Daughter of Mine doesn’t try to explain this bond — it just wants to revel in its glorious, enriching messiness. Read full review
80
CineVuePatrick Gamble
A bold and colourful, but by no means superficial portrait of femininity, Daughter of Mine successfully embodies a set of ideas – and anxieties – about motherhood that eloquently reflect a contemporary need to reevaluate the traditional family unit. Read full review
80
Screen DailyDemetrios Matheou
Bispuri and her actresses offer a striking study in contrasts. Read full review
80
VarietyJessica Kiang
Even when it trips up in its later stages, Daughter of Mine is a noble rarity, passionately involved in the exploration of oppositional ideas of motherhood not just as an abstract concept, but as a real and vivid, painfully sacrificial thing. Read full review
75
The Film StageEd Frankl
Bispuri challenges us to do away with conventional notions of what a perfect mother should be. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah Young
The tense triangle among the girl and her two moms unfolds against an interesting backdrop: a stark setting in rural Sardinia, where tall cliffs and dirt roads criss-cross a shrub-infested desert. Its general wildness is underlined in the first scene at a local bronco-busting rodeo. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyFeb 1, 2019
The script is very sparse. It feels like an outline, a general idea rather than an actual filled-out story. Because of this, there's a slightly belabored quality to the film. We see where it's going. We see how it's going to go. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneJan 30, 2019
Unlike My Life in Pink, Daughter of Mine sidesteps all ambiguity, as the film reveals everything about its characters straight away, leaving little room for unexpected complexities about their predicaments to develop. Read full review
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