A small movie set in coastal Sardinia, “Daughter of Mine”—in Italian with English subtitles—asks big questions and answers them fully, vividly and affectingly, without a trace of sentimentality. The most obvious question concerns the maternal bond: Who can claim it more persuasively, the birth mother or the woman who has raised the child? Two other questions, though, dominate a specific child’s life as she approaches her 10th birthday: Who am I, and who should I be? The girl at the center of Laura Bispuri’s powerful film,...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 31, 2019 20:48 UTC