
EVENT, SCREENING
The Eternal Daughter
Saturday, Sep 14, 2024 at 4:15 pm
Location: Bartos Screening Room
Introduced by Shonni Enelow, author of the new book Joanna Hogg
Dir. Joanna Hogg. 2022, 96 mins. With Tilda Swinton, Joseph Mydell, Carly-Sophia Davies, Alfie Sankey-Green. Hogg is one of the most consistently surprising, visually and emotionally precise filmmakers working anywhere in the world today, and her latest is at once an unexpected left turn and completely in keeping with her cinematic project. Taking the apparent form of a classical ghost story, The Eternal Daughter stars a marvelous Tilda Swinton in two roles, as an elderly mother and her middle-aged filmmaker daughter, staying together at a sinister, fog-enshrouded hotel in the English countryside. It’s the older woman’s birthday, and the younger woman is working on the script for a new movie. Strange things go bump in the night, and there’s an eerie sense of imminent danger in the nearly empty establishment, but Hogg twists the haunted house genre and finds something poignant, melancholy, and entirely new. Following her transformative one-two punch of The Souvenir films, Hogg has made another deeply moving and atmospheric film about the unknowability of those closest to us.
“A film about writing that is also about reading, it not only draws a connection between the ghost story and the mourning process, but also inverts the expected metaphorical relation between the two. Rather than a film about how the ghost story might describe the (a priori) process of mourning, it is a film about how successful mourning might depend on an engagement with the conventions of the ghost story, tying the acceptance of loss to the participation in genre.” —Shonni Enelow
Tickets: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership.
Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.