![]() ![]() Pugh is excellent, the cinematography is classy and I love the weirdly meta way the film opens: on a soundstage, with a narrator enigmatically commenting that “we are nothing without stories”. Is the girl a charlatan, a conduit for the divine or some kind of biological anomaly? Director Sebastián Lelio (whose previous film was the terrific A Fantastic Woman) does a fine job stretching out the mystery before delivering a definitive conclusion. Nurse Lib Wright (Pugh) is recruited to closely watch 11-year-old Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), who claims she survives only on “manna from heaven”. Film, Ireland/UK/US, 2022 – out 16 Novemberįlorence Pugh has starred in two films pivoting around mysteries this year: Don’t Worry Darling, in which she unearths the secrets behind an impossibly idyllic Happy Days-esque community, and now The Wonder – a period piece (adapting Emma Donoghue’s novel of the same name) set in Ireland involving a young girl who, according to the locals, doesn’t need food to survive.
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