The Wonder Trailer has been released by Netflix, which is slated to take over the streaming platform in the coming months. Starring Florence Pugh and based on the book by Emma Donoghue, writer of Room. The film tells a tale of a young Irish girl, Anna O’Donnell, whose Catholic family claim she has eaten nothing since her eleventh birthday four months ago.
Emma Donoghue also co-wrote the script with Alice Birch (Normal People) and it is directed by Sebastián Lelio, who won an Oscar for A Fantastic Woman. The film will have a runtime of around 1 hour and 48 minutes.
In 1862, 13 years after the Great Famine. An English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright 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”.
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As Anna’s health rapidly deteriorates, Lib is determined to unearth the truth, challenging the faith of a community that would prefer to stay believing. It centres around the mysterious story of the Irish fasting girls, a 19th-century phenomenon that saw young women claim to have stopped eating, insisting that they were surviving because of religious intervention.
The cast of the film includes Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Niamh Algar, Ciarán Hinds, Toby Jones, Elaine Cassidy, Dermot Crowley, Brían F. O’Byrne, David Wilmot, Ruth Bradley, Caolán Byrne and Josie Walker.
In the trailer, we see that Lib Wright, a nurse is called upon to keep a watch on a girl. She is tasked with observing Anna over the course of two weeks and determining whether or not her food-deprived survival is a miracle from heaven — or something more sinister. As the trailer progresses we are indulged in a much more complex mystery.
Some say that the girl is acting, while some consider her the chosen one. But what exactly is the truth? The time is ticking and Lib has to find out what is wrong with the girl and many more like her before she loses everyone to an unfortunate fate.
Watch The Wonder Trailer Below
The film is set to be released on 16th November on Netflix.
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