😍 2022-11-13 08:30:00 – Paris/France.
Florence Pugh puts aside the superhero stories, despite being crowned unexpected revelation of "Black Widow", and returns to the period cinema she had already explored in "Little Women". He will do so in "The Prodigy", a film adaptation of the homonymous novel that Emma Donoghue published in 2016 and which premieres this Wednesday on Netflix.
The writer is not new to cinema, in 2015 she saw the screen translation of “The room”, another of her books, which starred Brie Larson and was nominated for 4 Oscars, obtaining the best actress for its protagonist.
According to the magazine "Vogue Mexico", the film has several assets to repeat the feat of "La chambre".
On the one hand, it is directed by Sebastián Lelio, a Chilean director who has already won an Oscar for his work in the highly acclaimed 'A Fantastic Woman', a film that succeeded in changing the reality of trans people in the country of origin of the filmmaker. .
On the other hand, it is Florence Pugh, who won a nomination at the Hollywood Academy Awards for her work in “Little Women”, a film directed by Greta Gerwig released at the end of 2019.
The feature film will be released this Wednesday the 16th on Netflix and we will see Florence Pugh play Lib Wright, an English researcher who must go to a city in Ireland in 1862 to study an almost supernatural event: an 11-year-old child. old maid, Anna, he stops eating and stays alive, inexplicably, for months.
“Thriller in French”
The film is told as a psychological 'thriller', something its protagonist has experience in, having garnered much acclaim in 'Midsommar'.
The wonderkid wrapped filming in the mountains of Ireland and Netflix was already busy generating expectations around him for months before announcing his premiere.
As the platform hinted in the publication announcing the start of the recordings, the investigation of the film's protagonist will have to clarify whether the phenomenon of fasting responds to the holiness of the young girl or whether dark intentions are hidden behind it.
In the 19th century, there were teenage girls who refused to eat due to religious beliefs and were then known as fasting women. They also claimed to gain magical powers with it.
The other cast members are Tom Burke, Niamh Algar, Elaine Cassidy, Toby Jones and David Wilmot.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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