The American actress turned writer-director discusses the making of her first feature; a nerve-racking study of malcontent motherhood, based on a novel by Elena Ferrante
, for the big screen, she was surprised and delighted when the anonymous Italian author said yes. There was, however, one condition: Gyllenhaal herself had to promise to direct it, as well as write it, or the contract was void.writer Dayna Tortorici describes as “intense and intelligent women as they stare down the ugly side of female experience”, was ready to hand over the reins to another female artist. And she wanted Gyllenhaal to make it her own.
Once she had her screenplay, Gyllenhaal needed her cast. She secured Olivia Colman as her protagonist, Leda, a British academic in her late 40s, on vacation on a Greek island; Dakota Johnson, as a young American mother also holidaying on the island; Jessie Buckley to play Leda some 20 years earlier, and her own husband, Peter Sarsgaard, to star as one of Leda’s former love interests.
The movie cleverly borrows the vocabulary of what Gyllenhaal calls “a classic thriller” – replete with a number of skin-crawlingly unpleasant vignettes – but never quite allows the viewer to relax into what we think we know. This is partially achieved by the deliberate switching between camera angles, the director explains, which serves to disorientate and discombobulate.
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