“The Wonder” trailer: Florence Pugh discovers a miracle in Sebastián Lelio’s Netflix film

Florence Pugh's first on-screen role after 'Don't Worry Darling' is Oscar-winning director Sebastián Lelio's 'The Wonder'. The "A Fantastic Woman" and "Disobedience" director is helming the drama for Netflix, which releases "The Wonder" in theaters November 2 before it hits the streaming platform November 16. It's the story of a young Irish girl, Anna O'Donnell, whose Catholic family says she hasn't eaten anything since her 11th birthday four months ago. Watch the trailer below.

According to the official synopsis, the year is 1862, 13 years after the Great Famine. An English nurse Nightingale Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is called to the Irish Midlands by a devout community to conduct a 15-day examination on one of their own. Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy) is an 11-year-old girl who claims not to have eaten in four months, miraculously surviving on "manna from heaven". As Anna's health rapidly deteriorates, Lib is determined to uncover the truth, challenging the faith of a community that would rather continue to believe.

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The film is based on the novel by "Room" author Emma Donoghue. Chilean director Sebastián Lelio returns with his first feature since 2018's 'Gloria Bell' - itself a remake, starring Julianne Moore, of his 2013 film 'Gloria'. The ensemble cast includes Tom Burke ("Mank"), Niamh Algar ("Censor"), Elaine Cassidy ("Disco Pigs"), Kíla Lord Cassidy ("The Doorman"), Toby Jones ("First Cow") , Dermot Crowley ("The Death of Stalin"), Brían F. O'Byrne ("Little Boy Blue") and Ciaran Hinds ("The Terror"), with Donoghue, Lelio and Alice Birch writing the script.

From IndieWire's review of the film: "If it weren't for that weird framing device, you might have reason to see 'The Wonder' as a story in which saints and scams exclude each other mutually, but the intro filters the entire film through a lens that refracts it into a story that has nothing to do with God, and everything to do with belief. idea that Anna might in fact be nurtured by "manna from heaven", and at no point does Donoghue's screenplay - co-written by Lelio and "Lady Macbeth" writer Alice Birch - reduce the plot to a cheap. board game. But just because there's no magic at work doesn't necessarily mean a miracle can't happen."

Read IndieWire's interview with the filmmaker and star here.

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