The Wonder

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Certificate15
Year2022
GenreDrama, Thriller
Director(s)Sebastián Lelio
Writer(s)Alice Birch, Emma Donoghue, Sebastián Lelio
LanguageEnglish
CountryIreland, UK, USA
Running Time1HR 48MINS
SeasonMain Programme

Ever-unpredictable, Chilean director Sebastián Lelio ventures to 19th-century Ireland for this domestic psychodrama, which sees religious faith battle against scientific reason. Starring Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, and Kila Lord Cassidy.

The Irish Midlands, 1862 - a young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright (Pugh) is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O'Donnell (Lord Cassidy). 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 (Room).

"Pugh is riveting: she makes you feel Lib’s mind pushing at the walls of this bizarre scenario, scratching for the chink in the fiction that will lead her to truth." Daily Telegraph



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