PREVIEW: The Wonder (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Florence Pugh (Don’t Worry Darling), Tom Burke (Living), Kíla Lord Cassidy (The Doorman), Elaine Cassidy (And When Did You Last See Your Father?), Caolán Byrne (A Good Woman Is Hard To Find), Niamh Algar (Censor), Toby Jones (Berberian Sound Studio), Ciarán Hinds (Belfast), Dermot Crowley (The Death of Stalin), Brían F. O’Byrne (Million Dollar Baby), David Wilmot (Calvary), Josie Walker (Where Hands Touch)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman), director, writer; Alice Birch (Lady Macbeth), writer; Ed Guiney (Room), Juliette Howell (film debut), Andrew Lowe (The Guard) and Tessa Ross (’71), producers; Matthew Herbert (Disobedience), composer; Ari Wegner (The Power of the Dog), cinematographer; Kristina Hetherington (My Cousin Rachel), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1862, English nurse Lib Wright (Pugh) is sent to a small village in the Irish Midlands, where she is to observe young Anna O’Donnell (Cassidy), who claims to have not eaten anything since her eleventh birthday four months earlier. As the young girl attracts serious attention from tourists and pilgrims, who believe that Anna may be a living saint, Lib slowly unearths a darker motive at play…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Florence Pugh headlines this dark historical drama from Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio, who adapts Room author Emma Donoghue’s novel with a real sense of mystery and even existential dread.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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