![]() ![]() Here that terrain is the Irish countryside to which we venture with Nurse Wright ( Florence Pugh) to investigate a mysterious child called Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy) who has supposedly gone without food for four months. The device comes from Emma Donoghue’s 2016 novel of the same title, a far-cry from her 2010 claustrophobic thriller ‘Room’. ![]() The camera pans across an empty warehouse while a narrator asks us to remember the artifice of cinema when we enter its worlds, before landing on the room in which the story begins. The opening titles of The Wonder are superimposed over the exterior framework of a studio set. ![]() Sebastián Lelio’s 19th-century drama dwells in the gothic-bucolic as a nurse watches over a girl who has survived months without food. ![]()
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