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Title: Wonderstruck
Post by: wilder on May 12, 2017, 04:36:32 PM
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Set in 1927 and 1977, the film centers on Ben (Oakes Fegley) and Rose (Millie Simmonds), two deaf children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his home and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out on quests to find what they are missing that unfold with mesmerizing symmetry.


Directed by Todd Haynes
Starring Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams
Release Date - October 20, 2017



Title: Re: Wonderstruck
Post by: matt35mm on May 13, 2017, 09:59:31 AM
Why is Todd Haynes so good?
Title: Re: Wonderstruck
Post by: Just Withnail on May 15, 2017, 05:22:31 AM
Yeah really. That clip tickles me.

It's quietly cosmic in the way it juxtaposes the time periods, 70s/ancient history, 20s/ancient history, 20s/70s.

We get a sense of the things that pass away: Fashions, technology (b/w vs color), species.

And we get a sense of something constant: human curiosity and play, the museum itself (a safeguard against entropy, the passing-away of things, collective forgetfulness).
Title: Re: Wonderstruck
Post by: wilder on July 20, 2017, 03:54:07 PM
Title: Re: Wonderstruck
Post by: wilder on September 20, 2017, 11:51:22 AM
Title: Re: Wonderstruck
Post by: Something Spanish on November 06, 2017, 07:04:13 PM
Not the biggest Todd Haynes fan, but will always watch his features. Somehow I saw this one twice over the weekend. I really liked the idea of alternating constantly between two time periods, especially where one is a B&W silent film, but Wonderstruck did not work for me at all. The silent scenes in 1927 were nicely done, but that only plays in the film to a certain point and ultimately the whole movie felt meandering and pointless. I understand what he was going for as far as making connections, with other people as well as the past and present, but everything just felt so forced and unnatural here. The kid Millicent Simmonds was great, and the rest of the actors believable enough, the story just could not keep my interest and felt so pandering, felt like so much time was spent writing on a little pad that by the time the climax hit I really did not understand the need Haynes had to make it. While I'm Not Here felt like a failed experiment, this just felt like a failure.