Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley are as fantastic as you'd expect playing a woman holidaying on her own in Greece, and herself several years before, struggling to cope with her two daughters. She eventually admits to having left them for three years.
She makes oblique friends with a possibly criminal family from New York, in particular a young woman (Dakota Johnson) with a child. There's lots of meaningful looks everywhere. The child's doll goes missing and Olivia has taken it - I really don't know why other than it's perhaps a plot trigger for flashbacks. She's also admitted to Ed Harris to not being very nice, so maybe it's just that.
Maggie gets good performances out of everyone but directs in a very distracting manner, way too close to everyone's face (the DP is Hélène Louvart - Rocks). Annoying, then, in both plot and execution. It's based on an Elena Ferranti novel (The Neopolitan Quartet).
With Peter Sarsgaard, Dagmara Dominczyk, Paul Mescal, Jack Farthing.
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