Manohla Dargis in The New York Times cited Pugh’s “beautifully calibrated mix of physical vigor and temperamental astringency…(she) embodies the story’s arguments, themes and power with vivid clarity.” The film has received largely positive notices from critics, as has Pugh’s performance, including several raves. It’s helmed by the Chilean director Sebastian Lelio. It thus dramatizes the mysterious story of the so-called “fasting girls,” a 19th century phenomenon that saw young women stop eating but miraculously survive. Anna hasn’t had anything to eat or drink for four months and subsists solely on “manna from heaven” yet initially remains in perfect health. The film adapts Emma Donoghue‘s (“Room”) celebrated 2016 novel of the same name, starring Pugh as Lib Wright, an English Nightingale nurse sent to a tiny village in the Irish Midlands in 1862 to observe 11-year-old Anna O’Donnell ( Kila Lord Cassidy). It’s already number one in 11 of those countries, including the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Spain and Mexico. It took “The Wonder” only 24 hours to zoom into the viewing Top 10 in 74 countries.
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