“The Eternal Daughter” stars Swinton as both mom and daughter, in a beautifully elegiac portrait of women in search of understanding—and the source of the strange noises upstairs.
saga was a work of meta-fiction dissecting Hogg’s life. In those films, Julie—a version of Hogg—was played by Swinton’s daughter,powerfully mined Hogg’s relationship with her mother, Rosalind was but an ancillary character in Julie’s story of mid-twenties self-discovery.thrusts the two into the present-day, examining the ways that their connection differs now that Julie’s older and how it stays the same.parts one and two, adding to the texture of Hogg and Swinton’s previously woven tapestry.
Despite her mother making her life stories readily available for adaptation, Julie can’t seem to get settled into her work. A banging from an open window in an upstairs room during the night doesn’t help, nor do her unsettling late-night walks and the glow of green light that appears to follow her through the barren hotel. Julie may be burdened by her inability to start writing, but Rosalind takes comfort in the rituals of their days together in the hotel.
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