A 10-year-old girl is torn between two mothers in a newly released trailer for “Daughter of Mine,” Laura Bispuri’s follow-up to her award-winning debut, “Sworn Virgin.”
Notorious partier Angelica (Alba Rohrwacher) is the biological mother of Vittoria (Sara Casu), but it’s overprotective Tina (Valeria Golino) who raised her, and who the shy girl believes is her birth mother.
When Angelica faces eviction in the small Sardinian community she, Vittoria, and Tina call home, she decides she’d like to acquaint herself with Vittoria before she moves away. Tina agrees when the latter promises that when she skips town, she’ll be gone for good — and out of their lives forever. But as Vittoria and Angelica spend more and more time together and develop a bond, Tina tries to put the brakes on it.
“You can’t see Vittoria anymore,” she tells Angelica. “Vittoria’s mine.” She insists, “You’ve never wanted her, never.” But Angelica’s feelings seem to have changed.
“Daughter of Mine” premiered at the 2018 Berlinale and opens in U.S. theaters February 1. Bispuri and her “Sworn Virgin” co-writer Francesca Manieri penned the script.
