72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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The Wonder

Sebastián Lelio
UK - Ireland      119 m.
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The Irish Midlands, 1862. A young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O'Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months. Is the village harbouring a saint "surviving on manna from heaven" or are there more ominous motives at work? A psychological thriller inspired by the 19th century phenomenon of the fasting girls and adapted from the acclaimed novel by Emma Donoghue.

Director
Sebastián Lelio (Chile)
Screenplay
Sebastián Leilo, Alice Birch, Emma Donoghue
Production
Element Pictures (Ireland)
Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe
House Productions (United Kingdom)
Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell
Distribution
Netflix (Spain)
Photography
Ari Wegner
Edition
Kristina Hetherington
Music
Matthew Herbert
Sound
Rob Price
Cast
Florence Pugh, Tom Burkey, Kila Lord Cassidy
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
Running Time
119 m.
Original language of the film
English
Country
UK - Ireland
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