A gentle and mournful spell is cast by Joanna Hogg’s “The Eternal Daughter,” a ghost story where memory is manifested – visited, intruded upon and, finally, made to glow.
But the many doublings and real-world mirrors that reflect through “The Eternal Daughter” are part of its enigmatic mystery. Not only is there something vaguely spectral about Rosaline, whose interactions are limited to conversations with her daughter, but the old inn they are staying in is curiously empty and rather inhospitable.
In this empty manor, Julie is trying to spend some time with her mother and get some writing done. It’s not going as poorly as it did for Jack Torrance of “The Shining,” in another labyrinthine remote. But the going is slow, her sleep is disturbed by banging shutters and some of the reflections the trip prompts in Rosaline aren’t as warm as Julie expected. It was here, she says, she learned her brother died in the war.
“The Eternal Daughter,” an A24 release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association for some drug material. Running time: 96 minutes. Three stars out of four.
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