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The lead character, Leda, says that she is named for the woman in the W. B. Yeats poem "Leda and the Swan", which Yeats based on the Leda story of Greek mythology. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In February 2020, Olivia Colman , Jessie Buckley , Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard were cast in the film. [ 12 ]
Leda: protagonist and narrator. Forty-eight-year-old English literature professor, divorced, mother of two daughters. Nina: young mother of twenty-two. Elena: also known as Lenù, Nina's daughter. Rosaria: Nina's sister-in-law, she is expecting her first child. Gino: lifeguard on the beach where Leda goes, in love with Nina.
Variety wrote: "A potentially gripping psychodrama about an attractive young mother's neurotic, suggestively incestuous passion for her adolescent son is unevenly directed by John Newland and miscast with Romy Schneider as the mother. The result is a visually-creative dramatic mishmash with dull boxoffice prospects."
In 1924, Jane Fairchild is an orphan and maidservant who works for the wealthy Niven family. On Mothering Sunday, Jane is given the day off to spend as she likes.To her surprise, Paul Sheringham, the son of wealthy neighbours, invites her to spend the day with him at his family's house while his parents are out having lunch with the Nivens and the Hobday family.
In “Mary Jane,” the 2017 play written by Amy Herzog and making its Broadway debut under Anne Kauffman’s direction, viewers witness both a young mother’s joy and her anguish as she works ...
Stepmom is a 1998 American comedy-drama film directed by Chris Columbus and produced by Wendy Finerman, Mark Radcliffe, and Michael Barnathan.The screenplay was written by Gigi Levangie, Jessie Nelson, Steven Rogers, Karen Leigh Hopkins, and Ronald Bass.
After flying under the radar at this year's Sundance Film Festival, this tender tale of maternal longing and complex on-the-ground realities arrives in theaters.
Pretty Baby is a 1978 American historical drama film directed by Louis Malle, written by Polly Platt, and starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, and Susan Sarandon.Set in 1917, it focuses on a 12-year-old girl being raised in a brothel in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, by her prostitute mother.