Posted on 11/11/2022 3:31:21 AM PST by C19fan
The Wonder (15, 108mins)
Verdict: Compelling period drama
Rating: ****
The 2017 film Disobedience received oodles of critical acclaim without ever quite getting the audiences it deserved. It was about a woman, played by Rachel Weisz, ostracised by the strictly orthodox Jewish community in which she’d grown up in London after falling romantically for another woman.
Disobedience was an auspicious English-language debut by talented Chilean director Sebastian Leilo, and in The Wonder, his third film in English (the second was another corker, Gloria Bell, with Julianne Moore), Leilo tackles some of the same subjects: religious intensity, a woman’s refusal to conform, and a tight-knit community feeling threatened. But the backdrop here is very different.
The setting is rural Ireland in 1862, where the locals are flustered by a nine-year-old girl, Anna O’Donnell (newcomer Kila Lord Cassidy, acting her little socks off), who does not appear to have eaten anything for four months yet is still alive.
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re: Falling Romantically for Another Woman
Oh wow! How original! ( eye roll!)
“Falling>passive…deviant>active. Big difference.
Please. I come to Free Republic to get away from rainbow crap.
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