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  • Is story of fascinating girls trickery or divine miracle? BRIAN VINER reviews The Wonder

    11/11/2022 3:31:21 AM PST · by C19fan · 3 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | November 10, 2022 | Brian Viner
    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...