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T H E L O S T D A U G H T E R | P E R S P E C T I V E 1 1 7 hen first interiewed with aggie yllenhaal to design her directorial debut in the spring of 2020, the script I read took place in a sleepy American seaside town. aggie had adapted lena errantes Italian novel to a setting she felt more familiar within her adaptation, eda aruso, a uniersity professor liing in ambridge, assachusetts and played by liia olman, decides to spend her summer acation in an ast oast resort town. ur reference was ape od, and my lookbook was filled with images of white sand beaches and cabins of wooden slats, mostly photographed by oel eyerowit and arry allahan. The world, howeer, had other plans. The onset of the global pandemic meant the overnight closure of the US border and a suspension of visa applications. Since many of the cast and crew were international, it uickly became clear that the production couldnt proceed with shooting stateside. arious alternaties were considered and virtually scouted, but the borders in North America were slow to reopen and we etended our search to urope. ne day during a brainstorming session aggie uttered the magic words, hat about reece Though it felt like we spun a globe with our eyes closed and landed on an arbitrary point, somehow Greece immediately made sense. Perhaps errantes noel, set in Southern taly, had seeped A. YOUNG LEDA'S APARTMENT. SET SKETCH BY MONICA SALLUSTIO. B. APARTMENT LOCATION BEFORE DRESS. C. YOUNG LEDA'S APARTMENT. SET PHOTO. B C