Anna Torv, Australia, Geoffrey Rush, Interviews, Miranda Otto, Sam Neill, Simon
Stone, UK, NZ & Australia
Simon Stone's The Daughter is an interesting debut drama about a small
community united by a somewhat brooding lumber mill owner played by Geoffrey
Rush. The real focus of the film falls on two families both united by this
slowly liquidating timber business. Behind their small-town fronts exists a
series of devestating secrets that will threaten to destroy the world of the
film's eponymous daughter, played rather compellingly by the lively Odessa
Young. Adapted by the director from an Ibsen play of the same title, first as a
play and then as a film, this first feature project has managed to attract a
surprisingly high-profile cast, and it has been executed in quite a smart, deft
way. Interestingly for a film adapted from a Norwegian source by an...
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Stone, UK, NZ & Australia
Simon Stone's The Daughter is an interesting debut drama about a small
community united by a somewhat brooding lumber mill owner played by Geoffrey
Rush. The real focus of the film falls on two families both united by this
slowly liquidating timber business. Behind their small-town fronts exists a
series of devestating secrets that will threaten to destroy the world of the
film's eponymous daughter, played rather compellingly by the lively Odessa
Young. Adapted by the director from an Ibsen play of the same title, first as a
play and then as a film, this first feature project has managed to attract a
surprisingly high-profile cast, and it has been executed in quite a smart, deft
way. Interestingly for a film adapted from a Norwegian source by an...
[Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]
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