The Eternal Daughter (2022)

An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past. Featuring a towering, deeply moving performance by Tilda Swinton, acclaimed filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s beguiling film is a brilliant and captivating exploration of parental relationships and the things we leave behind.

The “Ga” of the title refers to the filmmaker’s mother. The film gathers together this elderly lady’s everyday actions to offer an abstract insight into her life.

Margaret Tait described this film as follows: “My mother seemed a good subject for a portrait (she was there), and I thought it offered a chance to do a sort of abstract film, in the sense that it didn’t have what you might call the ‘grammar of film.’ It’s mostly discontinuous shots linked just by subject, in one case by color, only rarely by movement.”