Launched last year by Wes Anderson’s producing partners at Indian Paintbrush, Galerie has emerged as a well-curated film club publishing unique selections of films from artists with their personal annotations. With past lists from the likes of James Gray, Ed Lachman, Mike Mills, Karyn Kusama, Ethan Hawke, and more, today we’re pleased to exclusively share a sneak peek from the lists of two celebrated Chilean filmmakers, Pablo Larraín and Sebastián Lelio, which have recently landed on the site.
Both filmmakers are currently working on their latest projects: Larraín is helming the Angelina Jolie-led Maria Callas drama, while Lelio is handling the musical The Wave, inspired by Chile’s “feminist May” movement in 2018. While in post-production on the projects, they’ve shared their curated collections.
The Spencer and El Conde director features Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing on his list,...
Both filmmakers are currently working on their latest projects: Larraín is helming the Angelina Jolie-led Maria Callas drama, while Lelio is handling the musical The Wave, inspired by Chile’s “feminist May” movement in 2018. While in post-production on the projects, they’ve shared their curated collections.
The Spencer and El Conde director features Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing on his list,...
- 5/17/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
In a notable prestige project package from Chile, Gonzalo Maza, co-writer of Sebastian Lelio’s Academy Award-winning “A Fantastic Woman,” has boarded “I Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye,” a drama thriller non-fiction series to be directed by Carola Fuentes and produced by Rafael Valdeavellano, re-teaming after their collaboration as co-writers and directors on the admired “Chicago Boys,” (2015) and “Breaking the Brick” (2022).
Both doc features were nuanced studies of the impact of Chicago school of Neoliberal thought on standard economic policy in Augusto Pinochet’s Chile. “Goodbye” turns on another often deleterious mindset, the highly codified and often cruel power dynamics seen in the online representation of fellow high school students.
Set up at the partners’ La Ventana Cine in Santiago de Chile, “I Don’t Want to Say Goodbye,” now in development, is executive produced by director Marcela Said, who has helmed episodes of “Gangs of London,” (2022), “Lupin...
Both doc features were nuanced studies of the impact of Chicago school of Neoliberal thought on standard economic policy in Augusto Pinochet’s Chile. “Goodbye” turns on another often deleterious mindset, the highly codified and often cruel power dynamics seen in the online representation of fellow high school students.
Set up at the partners’ La Ventana Cine in Santiago de Chile, “I Don’t Want to Say Goodbye,” now in development, is executive produced by director Marcela Said, who has helmed episodes of “Gangs of London,” (2022), “Lupin...
- 11/27/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Chile’s at it again. Since’s Andrés Wood’s breakout “Machuca” in 2004, Chilean filmmakers, led by Pablo Larraín, Sebastián Lelio and now Maite Alberdi, have punched consistently above the country’s weight, consistently winning plaudits at Sundance, Berlin and Cannes. Chile has also won three Oscars – for Claudio Miranda’s cinematography on 2012’s “Life of Pi,” 2015’s animated short “Bear Story” and Lelio’s 2017’s fiction feature “A Fantastic Woman” – more any other South American country apart from Argentina.
First half 2023 has proved no exception in Chile’s statue trawl. Some of the awards on offer are among the biggest out: Alberdi’s “The Eternal Memory,” from Fabula, scooped Sundance’s World Cinema Grand Prize; Andrés Wood’s “News of a Kidnapping” walked off with best series at the Platino Awards, the Spanish-speaking world’s nearest kudos fest to the Oscars.
In all, according to a CinemaChile study released during Sanfic,...
First half 2023 has proved no exception in Chile’s statue trawl. Some of the awards on offer are among the biggest out: Alberdi’s “The Eternal Memory,” from Fabula, scooped Sundance’s World Cinema Grand Prize; Andrés Wood’s “News of a Kidnapping” walked off with best series at the Platino Awards, the Spanish-speaking world’s nearest kudos fest to the Oscars.
In all, according to a CinemaChile study released during Sanfic,...
- 8/24/2023
- by John Hopewell, Anna Marie de la Fuente and Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
This article contains spoilers from Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles novels.
While production on AMC’s Interview with The Vampire is currently staked by strikes, the teaser trailer for season 2 shows the crew is in the midst of preparing a most sumptuous meal. Based on Anne Rice’s iconic and bestselling novel, the first season stoked the rising passion between New Orleans minor gangland figure Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), the masterful mentoring of the internationally traveled vampire Lestat De Lioncourt (Sam Reid), and the ageless complications of the unfortunate Claudia, the immortal child now played by Delainey Hayles, who replaces Bailey Bass as the series escapes to Paris.
The trailer begins with journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) clicking record on his laptop and asking, “Ok, so where did we leave off?” Considering the abrupt break in family relations which ended the premiere season, there is nowhere to...
While production on AMC’s Interview with The Vampire is currently staked by strikes, the teaser trailer for season 2 shows the crew is in the midst of preparing a most sumptuous meal. Based on Anne Rice’s iconic and bestselling novel, the first season stoked the rising passion between New Orleans minor gangland figure Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), the masterful mentoring of the internationally traveled vampire Lestat De Lioncourt (Sam Reid), and the ageless complications of the unfortunate Claudia, the immortal child now played by Delainey Hayles, who replaces Bailey Bass as the series escapes to Paris.
The trailer begins with journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) clicking record on his laptop and asking, “Ok, so where did we leave off?” Considering the abrupt break in family relations which ended the premiere season, there is nowhere to...
- 7/25/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Sebastián Lelio's films have often dealt with the experiences of women on the edge or at a major crossroads in their lives. His characters are challenged by present difficulties and past traumas that appear directly in front of them all at once, and Lelio uses every tool possible to fill his movies with their subjective view of events. In his 2022 film "The Wonder," based on Emma Donoghue's book of the same name, that subjectivity becomes a core question: How can one know the experience of another?
Elizabeth (Florence Pugh), or Lib, has a rational view of things. Because of that, her arrival in a provincial Irish village for the purpose of taking care of (and observing) a seemingly mystical phenomenon is practically designed to push her out of her comfort zone. The character served as a nurse in the Crimean War, surrounded by death on all sides, and...
Elizabeth (Florence Pugh), or Lib, has a rational view of things. Because of that, her arrival in a provincial Irish village for the purpose of taking care of (and observing) a seemingly mystical phenomenon is practically designed to push her out of her comfort zone. The character served as a nurse in the Crimean War, surrounded by death on all sides, and...
- 1/6/2023
- by Anthony Crislip
- Slash Film
This year’s Lff continues apace and tonight the Royal Festival Hall played host to the premiere of Netflix’s The Wonder. The film stars Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kila Lord Cassidy, Elaine Cassidy, Toby Jones, Niamh Algar and was written by Sebastián Lelio, Alice Birch, Emma Donoghue and directed by Lelio.
The film will hit the streaming service on 16th November after an initial run in cinemas. Colin Hart, Ethan Hart and Scott Davis were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
The Wonder Lff Premiere Interviews
Plot:
Inspired by the 19th-century phenomenon of the ‘fasting girls’ and adapted from the acclaimed novel by Emma Donoghue (writer of Room), the film, set in the Irish Midlands, 1862 – follows a young girl who 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...
The film will hit the streaming service on 16th November after an initial run in cinemas. Colin Hart, Ethan Hart and Scott Davis were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
The Wonder Lff Premiere Interviews
Plot:
Inspired by the 19th-century phenomenon of the ‘fasting girls’ and adapted from the acclaimed novel by Emma Donoghue (writer of Room), the film, set in the Irish Midlands, 1862 – follows a young girl who 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...
- 10/7/2022
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Lurid mysteries abound in Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio’s latest feature, “The Wonder.”
Starring “Don’t Worry Darling” and “Little Women” Oscar nominee Florence Pugh as an nurse tasked with caring for an ailing 11-year-old girl who’s inexplicably not eaten in four months, the first trailer showcases an atmospheric, 19th century tale with eerie twists and turns as Pugh nurse, the girl’s family and the townspeople around them fights to determine the young girl’s secret.
Per a logline from distributor Netflix, which debuted the film Sept. 2 at the Telluride Film Festival, “The Wonder” takes place in “1862, 13 years after the Great Famine. An English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is called to the Irish Midlands by a devout community to conduct a 15-day examination over one of their own. Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy) is an 11-year-old girl who claims not to have eaten for four months, surviving miraculously on ‘manna from heaven.
Starring “Don’t Worry Darling” and “Little Women” Oscar nominee Florence Pugh as an nurse tasked with caring for an ailing 11-year-old girl who’s inexplicably not eaten in four months, the first trailer showcases an atmospheric, 19th century tale with eerie twists and turns as Pugh nurse, the girl’s family and the townspeople around them fights to determine the young girl’s secret.
Per a logline from distributor Netflix, which debuted the film Sept. 2 at the Telluride Film Festival, “The Wonder” takes place in “1862, 13 years after the Great Famine. An English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is called to the Irish Midlands by a devout community to conduct a 15-day examination over one of their own. Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy) is an 11-year-old girl who claims not to have eaten for four months, surviving miraculously on ‘manna from heaven.
- 10/4/2022
- by Benjamin Lindsay
- The Wrap
Florence Pugh Challenges Belief Systems in First Trailer for Psychological Period Drama ‘The Wonder’
Psychological thriller savant Florence Pugh has geared up for another twisted story, this time starring in Sebastian Lelio’s The Wonder, the forthcoming psychological period drama adapted from Emma Donoghue’s novel of the same name. In the first trailer for the film arriving to Netflix on Nov. 16, the Midsommar and Don’t Worry Darling actress travels back to 1862.
Lib Wright (Pugh), a nurse from England, is an outsider in The Wonder. She arrives at a small village in the Irish Midlands to monitor a young girl named Anna O’Donnell...
Lib Wright (Pugh), a nurse from England, is an outsider in The Wonder. She arrives at a small village in the Irish Midlands to monitor a young girl named Anna O’Donnell...
- 10/4/2022
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Florence Pugh has established herself as one of our most compelling actresses in a relatively short period of time, with awards-worthy performances in movies like "Little Women" and "Midsommar." But it's not just "Don't Worry Darling" that will give Pugh the spotlight this year as she is also headlining "The Wonder" for Netflix, which looks to be an atmospheric, mystery-filled thriller set in the 1800s just to add to the whole thing.
What happens when a nurse is brought in to investigate a young girl who won't eat during a time when people are generally hyper-religious and not far removed from famine? Things get creepy. Let's have a look.
The Wonder Trailer Brings The Mysterious, Creepy Vibes
Having not seen the film, the vibes I'm getting ring closer to "The Witch" or perhaps something like "It Comes at Night." Atmospheric horror/thriller vibes, rather than something packed with jump scares.
What happens when a nurse is brought in to investigate a young girl who won't eat during a time when people are generally hyper-religious and not far removed from famine? Things get creepy. Let's have a look.
The Wonder Trailer Brings The Mysterious, Creepy Vibes
Having not seen the film, the vibes I'm getting ring closer to "The Witch" or perhaps something like "It Comes at Night." Atmospheric horror/thriller vibes, rather than something packed with jump scares.
- 10/4/2022
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
Florence Pugh’s first screen role after “Don’t Worry Darling” is Oscar-winning director Sebastián Lelio’s “The Wonder.” The “A Fantastic Woman” and “Disobedience” director helms the drama for Netflix, which releases “The Wonder” in theaters on November 2 before it arrives on the streaming platform November 16. It’s the tale of a young Irish girl, Anna O’Donnell, whose Catholic family claims she has eaten nothing since her 11th birthday, which was four months ago. Watch the trailer below.
Per the official synopsis, it’s 1862, 13 years after the Great Famine. An English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is called to the Irish Midlands by a devout community to conduct a 15-day examination over one of their own. Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy) is an 11-year-old girl who claims not to have eaten for four months, surviving miraculously on “manna from heaven.” As Anna’s health rapidly deteriorates, Lib is determined to unearth the truth,...
Per the official synopsis, it’s 1862, 13 years after the Great Famine. An English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is called to the Irish Midlands by a devout community to conduct a 15-day examination over one of their own. Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy) is an 11-year-old girl who claims not to have eaten for four months, surviving miraculously on “manna from heaven.” As Anna’s health rapidly deteriorates, Lib is determined to unearth the truth,...
- 10/4/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Kila Lord Cassidy as Anna O’Donnell, Tom Burke as Will Byrne, and Florence Pugh as Lib Wright in ‘The Wonder’ (Photo by Aidan Monaghan / Netflix © 2022)
Netflix has set a November 16, 2022 premiere date for The Wonder, a psychological thriller starring Florence Pugh. The film, which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and Telluride, also just released a new poster and photos.
In addition to Florence Pugh, the cast includes Tom Burke, Niamh Algar, Elaine Cassidy, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Toby Jones, and Ciarán Hinds. Dermot Crowley, Brían F. O’Byrne, and David Wilmot also star.
Sebastián Lelio and Alice Birch adapted Emma Donoghue’s 2018 novel, with Lelio also directing. Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Ed Guiney, and Andrew Lowe produced.
The Plot: 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...
Netflix has set a November 16, 2022 premiere date for The Wonder, a psychological thriller starring Florence Pugh. The film, which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and Telluride, also just released a new poster and photos.
In addition to Florence Pugh, the cast includes Tom Burke, Niamh Algar, Elaine Cassidy, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Toby Jones, and Ciarán Hinds. Dermot Crowley, Brían F. O’Byrne, and David Wilmot also star.
Sebastián Lelio and Alice Birch adapted Emma Donoghue’s 2018 novel, with Lelio also directing. Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Ed Guiney, and Andrew Lowe produced.
The Plot: 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...
- 9/16/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Power Surge: Lelio Ponders power and the profound in his latest which attempts to grapple with the nature of storytelling itself
“This is the beginning of a film called The Wonder,” a narrator informs us as the 19th-century set film surprisingly opens on a contemporary studio soundstage. The wooden frame of a house is raised up on supports, while the meticulously crafted interior of a steamship sits off to the side. Acknowledging the artifice of the picture we’re about to see, the narrator continues by saying “we are nothing without stories” and “invites you to believe in this one.” It’s a profound opening to Sebastián Lelio’s latest, one that encourages viewers to keep the mechanisms and purpose of storytelling in mind from the start.…...
“This is the beginning of a film called The Wonder,” a narrator informs us as the 19th-century set film surprisingly opens on a contemporary studio soundstage. The wooden frame of a house is raised up on supports, while the meticulously crafted interior of a steamship sits off to the side. Acknowledging the artifice of the picture we’re about to see, the narrator continues by saying “we are nothing without stories” and “invites you to believe in this one.” It’s a profound opening to Sebastián Lelio’s latest, one that encourages viewers to keep the mechanisms and purpose of storytelling in mind from the start.…...
- 9/16/2022
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- IONCINEMA.com
On paper, Sebastián Lelio’s The Wonder sounds like a prime contender for awards season. It’s a period piece set in 19th-century Ireland, adapted from a book by Emma Donoghue (whose 2015 adaptation of her book Room nabbed her an Oscar nomination), directed by an Oscar winner, shot by The Power of the Dog Dp Ari Wegner, and led by the massively talented Florence Pugh. It only takes one minute before the film breaks the fourth wall and any preconceived notions as to what it might be, with Pugh introducing herself over footage of a movie set. She explains we’re about to watch a story with characters who have strong beliefs, and asks a favor of the viewer: “We are nothing without stories, so we invite you to believe in this one.” It’s definitely a choice by Lelio—sadly the only interesting one in his film.
That meta bit only exists as bookends,...
That meta bit only exists as bookends,...
- 9/15/2022
- by C.J. Prince
- The Film Stage
Toronto film festival: The star plays a nurse investigating an alleged miracle in a captivating period thriller about the dangers of religious fervor
There’s a confounding first frame in Sebastián Lelio’s eerie and unusual period drama The Wonder, taking us somewhere we really didn’t expect, a wrong-footed leap not into the past but into the present, behind the scenes rather than in them. It starts on a film set, a construct, Niamh Algar’s soothing voice telling us that we are watching a film but that the characters believe in their reality. It’s an awfully pretentious and ultimately unrewarding opening gambit, a fourth wall destroyer that seems created by someone who doesn’t trust the power of the film it precedes.
Lelio needn’t have worried. His thoughtful adaptation of Emma Donaghue’s acclaimed 2016 novel doesn’t need a gimmick to compel us, a magnetic and...
There’s a confounding first frame in Sebastián Lelio’s eerie and unusual period drama The Wonder, taking us somewhere we really didn’t expect, a wrong-footed leap not into the past but into the present, behind the scenes rather than in them. It starts on a film set, a construct, Niamh Algar’s soothing voice telling us that we are watching a film but that the characters believe in their reality. It’s an awfully pretentious and ultimately unrewarding opening gambit, a fourth wall destroyer that seems created by someone who doesn’t trust the power of the film it precedes.
Lelio needn’t have worried. His thoughtful adaptation of Emma Donaghue’s acclaimed 2016 novel doesn’t need a gimmick to compel us, a magnetic and...
- 9/14/2022
- by Benjamin Lee in Toronto
- The Guardian - Film News
The camera glides across a soundstage, showing the rough exterior of the set of a house built on top of a steel platform. "This is the beginning of a movie called 'The Wonder,'" a narrator tells us, before adding: "We are nothing without stories." Eventually, the camera pans over to a small set dressed to resemble the bowels of a ship, where a woman (Florence Pugh) sits, eating from a bowl, as the set rocks back and forth to mimic the rolling of the waves.
It's a provocative intro, but ... why is it happening? After this setup, director Sebastián Lelio's "The Wonder" completely abandons the "this is all a movie on a set" idea, and fully commits itself to being set in the Irish countryside in 1862, complete with lush, on-location shooting. What is Lelio trying to say with that facade-based intro? That what we're seeing is all a lie?...
It's a provocative intro, but ... why is it happening? After this setup, director Sebastián Lelio's "The Wonder" completely abandons the "this is all a movie on a set" idea, and fully commits itself to being set in the Irish countryside in 1862, complete with lush, on-location shooting. What is Lelio trying to say with that facade-based intro? That what we're seeing is all a lie?...
- 9/14/2022
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
The Wonder is Gothic without the architecture. Set in rural central Ireland in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-1800s, director Sebastian Lelio’s adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s 2016 novel methodically moves the chess pieces around in telling the tale of an 11-year-old girl who has locals mystified as to what God is intending by letting her survive for four months without eating. Atmospheric and intriguing up to a point, it nonetheless feels like much ado about a mildly curious situation that’s been milked for rather more than it’s worth.
Lending the material an added dimension at the outset, Leilo opens the proceedings on a soundstage from which he shortly moves into the set itself. English nurse Lib (Florence Pugh) has been engaged to come to the Midlands to see what she can make of peasant girl Anna (Kila Lord Cassidy).
A young widow,...
Lending the material an added dimension at the outset, Leilo opens the proceedings on a soundstage from which he shortly moves into the set itself. English nurse Lib (Florence Pugh) has been engaged to come to the Midlands to see what she can make of peasant girl Anna (Kila Lord Cassidy).
A young widow,...
- 9/4/2022
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
‘The Wonder’ Review: Florence Pugh Dazzles in Sebastian Lelio’s Mesmerizing Study of Faith and Abuse
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World premiering at Telluride and to be distributed by Netflix this fall, The Wonder scintillates for a number of reasons. For one thing, its study of religious fanaticism and sexual abuse touches a nerve in today’s culture. It also represents perhaps the finest achievement to date of Chilean director Sebastian Lelio, who won an Oscar for A Fantastic Woman and also helmed such well received movies as Gloria (and its American remake, Gloria Bell) and Disobedience. But the film will be remembered primarily for the monumental performance by Florence Pugh, who transports audiences on her character’s journey to save the life of a child victimized by 19th century society.
In assigning credit, however, one should not overlook the contribution of novelist Emma Donoghue, who first created the story and also wrote the book Room, another study of women and children abused and tormented.
World premiering at Telluride and to be distributed by Netflix this fall, The Wonder scintillates for a number of reasons. For one thing, its study of religious fanaticism and sexual abuse touches a nerve in today’s culture. It also represents perhaps the finest achievement to date of Chilean director Sebastian Lelio, who won an Oscar for A Fantastic Woman and also helmed such well received movies as Gloria (and its American remake, Gloria Bell) and Disobedience. But the film will be remembered primarily for the monumental performance by Florence Pugh, who transports audiences on her character’s journey to save the life of a child victimized by 19th century society.
In assigning credit, however, one should not overlook the contribution of novelist Emma Donoghue, who first created the story and also wrote the book Room, another study of women and children abused and tormented.
- 9/3/2022
- by Stephen Farber
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Considering that Sebastián Lelio’s “The Wonder” is a religious mystery (of sorts) set in the Irish Midlands circa 1862, the first shot of the film is so wildly unexpected that audiences might fear that the projectionist has played the wrong file. We open, not on the foggy moors of a country still reeling from the Great Famine that had starved it to death some 13 years earlier, but rather in the cavernous space of a modern soundstage — the kind of facility that might house the sets for a period drama like this one. It looks more like a logo of a production company than it does the opening image of a movie. Only when a disembodied Florence Pugh starts talking to us over the soundtrack are we able to make sense of what we’re watching.
“Hello,” she says with a comforting softness, “This is the beginning of a film called ‘The Wonder.’” At this point,...
“Hello,” she says with a comforting softness, “This is the beginning of a film called ‘The Wonder.’” At this point,...
- 9/3/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The Lord works in mysterious ways, Christians are fond of telling us. More mysterious still is the matter of faith, a uniquely human idea which operates on the principle that phenomena we can’t explain are true, not because we understand them but because we don’t need to.
Set in an almost medieval-feeling 1862, “The Wonder” asks audiences to ponder the meaning of a miracle. Is it possible, as the devout residents of a small Irish community believe, for an 11-year-old girl to survive for four months without food? The child, Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), suddenly stopped eating, and swears that since then, she’s been sustained by “manna from heaven.” As word of this “wonder” spread, pilgrims have come to see the phenomenon for themselves. Local authorities understandably have their doubts, calling for an English nurse, Lib Wright (Florence Pugh), to observe the situation.
An outwardly stoic but...
Set in an almost medieval-feeling 1862, “The Wonder” asks audiences to ponder the meaning of a miracle. Is it possible, as the devout residents of a small Irish community believe, for an 11-year-old girl to survive for four months without food? The child, Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), suddenly stopped eating, and swears that since then, she’s been sustained by “manna from heaven.” As word of this “wonder” spread, pilgrims have come to see the phenomenon for themselves. Local authorities understandably have their doubts, calling for an English nurse, Lib Wright (Florence Pugh), to observe the situation.
An outwardly stoic but...
- 9/3/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
For some filmmakers, winning an Oscar marks the start of a new chapter. For Sebastián Lelio, it was the end of one.
In 2018, when the Chilean filmmaker won the Best International Feature award for his beloved trans character study “A Fantastic Woman,” he was emerging from a whirlwind of projects: He had already shot his first English-language feature, the British lesbian romance “Disobedience,” and was nearly finished with production on “Gloria Bell,” the English-language adaptation of his own 2013 midlife crisis crowdpleaser “Gloria.” With four movies in five years, Lelio had established himself as one of the most celebrated Latin American filmmakers working today and successfully brought his penchant for engaging, female-focused character studies to English-language audiences.
“It was this big episode of my life where a lot of things happened,” Lelio said in an interview with IndieWire over Zoom from his apartment in Chile. “The pandemic times were an interesting...
In 2018, when the Chilean filmmaker won the Best International Feature award for his beloved trans character study “A Fantastic Woman,” he was emerging from a whirlwind of projects: He had already shot his first English-language feature, the British lesbian romance “Disobedience,” and was nearly finished with production on “Gloria Bell,” the English-language adaptation of his own 2013 midlife crisis crowdpleaser “Gloria.” With four movies in five years, Lelio had established himself as one of the most celebrated Latin American filmmakers working today and successfully brought his penchant for engaging, female-focused character studies to English-language audiences.
“It was this big episode of my life where a lot of things happened,” Lelio said in an interview with IndieWire over Zoom from his apartment in Chile. “The pandemic times were an interesting...
- 9/2/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
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