Lib acts strong and defensive because of traumatic events in her past, and with a less skilled actress such a wall would be charmless. Pugh’s performance is all-business, like a 19th-century Dana Scully in a town full of Mulders. Their romance is not romantic, on purpose. Even when Lib, a widow, meets a Daily Telegraph journalist on assignment from London and starts up a flirtation, the situation stays dreary. Later, it’s more traditionally dramatic, though never light in tone or appearance. The earliest scenes are shadowy and tense as we await Anna’s head to spin around 360 degrees and yell, “What an excellent day for an exorcism!” Lib (Pugh) is contending with her own demons. The identity of director Sebastián Lelio’s film shifts several times. Maybe, we wonder of “The Wonder,” this farfetched fast is legit.
Why would Anna’s stone-faced mom, dad and sister lie? The family isn’t making money off the people who come far and wide to see their daughter they turn up their noses at fame and the girl seems content. The viewer shares Lib’s skepticism as she searches for hidden food in the bedroom, but suddenly even she starts to bend. Lib (Florence Pugh) observes Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy), an 11-year-old girl who claims to have eaten no food in four months. I live on manna from heaven.” A barrel of laughs, she is. She clinically asks Anna if she’s eaten any meals and the girl replies, “I don’t eat wheat. They’re not looking for Lib - a not particularly religious, logical woman - to myth-bust the purported miracle. Rated R (some sexuality.) On Netflix.Ĭatholic to the core, a committee of prickly men enlist a nurse named Lib (Pugh) to observe Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy) non-stop for two weeks. The Wonder is available on Overdrive.Running time: 108 minutes. The plot will keep you guessing until the very end!Įmma Donoghue also wrote Room, which was made into a movie.
The mystery surrounding little Anna gets more complex as Lib learns more about her religious devotion and her family. This novel’s characters are well drawn and compelling. The local doctor, McBrearty, believes Anna is turning into a reptile! Is this a religious hoax? Or is it a miracle? Is someone secretly feeding Anna? Is Anna destined for sainthood? People come from afar to see the saintly, starving girl and to drop coins into the poor box stationed just inside the door of Anna’s home. Sister Michael, an Irish nun and nurse, shares the job of observing Anna with Lib. Anna lives in Ireland with her devoutly Catholic family, minus her brother who died last year.
Lib is a Nightingale trained nurse from England charged with watching eleven year old Anna who has not eaten in four months. Book Review: The Wonder, by Emma Donoghue
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