| Director: | Joanna Hogg |
|---|---|
| Production: | Element Pictures (Ed Guiney, Emma Norton, Andrew Lowe) |
| Running Time: | 96’ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, USA |
| Main Cast: | Tilda Swinton, Joseph Mydell, Carly-Sophia Davies |
| Screenplay: | Joanna Hogg |
| Cinematographer: | Ed Rutherford |
| Editor: | Helle Le Fevre |
| Production Designer: | Stéphane Collonge |
| Costume Designer: | Grace Snell |
Cinema
The Eternal Daughter
Venezia 79 Competition
Synopsis
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
Director’s Statement
In 2008 I set out to write a film capturing something of the relationship I have with my elderly mother. She grew up during the Second World War, and comes from a generation of women who kept their feelings to themselves, and who experienced loss but had no understanding how to process the grief and sometimes lived full of regrets and guilt.
I discovered my own guilt, which is of course entwined with my mother’s, was stopping me from creating this story. However something opened up two years ago when I set the story inside an eerie hotel; a realisation that the ghostly and the personal and deeply felt could be intertwined.
Production/Distribution
PRODUCTION: Element Pictures
30/31 O Connell Street Lower
D01 DH58 – Dublin, Ireland
Tel. +353 16185032
info@elementpictures.ie
WORLD SALES: Sales International – A24
31 West 27th Street
10001 – New York, United States of America
Tel. +1 6465686015
sales@a24films.com
PRESS OFFICE: Premier PR
theeternaldaughter@premiercomms.com
