The Wonder (2022)
Country: EIRE/GB/US
Technical: col/2.39:1 108m
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Cast: Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Toby Jones, Elaine Cassidy
Synopsis:
Rural Ireland, some time after the potato famine: an English nurse and a Catholic sister are sent for by a council of elders to keep watch over a young girl and lend credence to miraculous assertions; for the child has not eaten in four months and yet seems perfectly healthy.
Review:
Lelio's exquisitely made film begins and ends with a breaking of the illusion of storytelling, which is apt enough, and the lighting, compositions and close-up work are remarkable. However, as our heroine peels away one by one the half truths, superstition and abomination underlying her mission, the pace could be said to flag, even if there is much to admire in the performances and direction.
Country: EIRE/GB/US
Technical: col/2.39:1 108m
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Cast: Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Toby Jones, Elaine Cassidy
Synopsis:
Rural Ireland, some time after the potato famine: an English nurse and a Catholic sister are sent for by a council of elders to keep watch over a young girl and lend credence to miraculous assertions; for the child has not eaten in four months and yet seems perfectly healthy.
Review:
Lelio's exquisitely made film begins and ends with a breaking of the illusion of storytelling, which is apt enough, and the lighting, compositions and close-up work are remarkable. However, as our heroine peels away one by one the half truths, superstition and abomination underlying her mission, the pace could be said to flag, even if there is much to admire in the performances and direction.
Country: EIRE/GB/US
Technical: col/2.39:1 108m
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Cast: Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Toby Jones, Elaine Cassidy
Synopsis:
Rural Ireland, some time after the potato famine: an English nurse and a Catholic sister are sent for by a council of elders to keep watch over a young girl and lend credence to miraculous assertions; for the child has not eaten in four months and yet seems perfectly healthy.
Review:
Lelio's exquisitely made film begins and ends with a breaking of the illusion of storytelling, which is apt enough, and the lighting, compositions and close-up work are remarkable. However, as our heroine peels away one by one the half truths, superstition and abomination underlying her mission, the pace could be said to flag, even if there is much to admire in the performances and direction.