“Deeply involving and emotionally searing, The Daughter reps a confident and profoundly moving big screen debut for established theater director Simon Stone. Those familiar with Henrik Ibsen’s play will find its themes fully intact. Yet Stone’s radical retooling of the story details, characters and setting has yielded something urgent and new, and the low-key, naturalistic approach to his direction of a fine cast should ensure busy international festival play.
“Stone has said that when he sat down to write the screenplay he had neither Ibsen’s text nor his own theatrical adaption on his desk or in his mind. What he clearly did retain, however, is both his innate understanding of the playwright’s original aims and a keen sense of small-town class tensions.” - Eddie Cockrell, Variety
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