Remember 'Don't Worry Darling'? We don't either. Luckily, Florence Pugh has another movie coming out in 2022 — and this one reminds you why she's one of the most brilliant actors working today. Our review of 'The Wonder.'
thing you see ina historical drama set in 19th-century Ireland, is not the rolling green plains of the nation’s countryside. It’s not Dublin’s muddy, sooty streets, nor the dark-lit taverns where bearded men curse and drink ale or the rural family cottage wherein a miracle may or may not be taking place. We’ll get to bask in the splendor of those backdrops soon enough.
No, the first thing this movie shows us is the inside of an enclosed film soundstage. A narrator tells us this is 1862, and we’re on a ship’s heading to the Emerald Isle from England, as a camera eventually glides past mazes of scaffolding and resting klieg lights and slowly zooms in to middle of set that resembles a vintage seafaring vessel’s below-deck quarters.
, sitting quietly at the end of a wooden dining table. The characters believe in the stories they’ve concocted for themselves, the voiceover says, as we watch a black-bonneted Miss Flo eat. So why shouldnot believe in the one the filmmakers will show us? There’s no puncturing of an illusion here, because there was never any pretense that this — actors on a shoot, reciting lines and playing pretend — was anything but an illusion to begin with.
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