You could easily find good and bad examples of both kinds this year, but writer - director Terence Davies» witty,
wonderstruck look at the life and work of Emily Dickinson was a good reminder that this genre's usual - route world was not conclusion (or consigned to endless cradle - to - grave repetition).
Not exact matches
Then, he
looks at the new trailers for The Disaster Artist and Fifty Shades Freed before launching into reviews of the original Daddy's Home, its sequel Daddy's Home 2 as well as Murder on the Orient Express and
Wonderstruck.
Looking at Haynes» past works, it
looks like
Wonderstruck will be one of the top contenders to get an Oscar nomination at the 90th Academy Awards.
And if the new trailer for
Wonderstruck is anything to go by, it
looks like Haynes took his latest project to new heights.
Like that work, «
Wonderstruck»
looks through the eyes of a child at the world of adults — in this case, two children, one in 1927 and one in 1977.
Wonderstruck tells the parallel (and mystically linked) stories of two children: one a girl (Millicent Simmonds)
looking for her mother (Moore) in 1920s Manhattan, the other boy (Oakes Fegley) who runs away from his Minnesota home to 1970s New York,
looking for the father he never knew.
Which means the characters played by Krasinski, Emily Blunt,
Wonderstruck's extraordinary deaf actress Millicent Simmonds and newcomer Noah Jupe either sign the majority of their dialogue or communicate solely through expression, gesture, worried
looks and the occasional slow dance to Neil Young's «Harvest Moon» piped through earbuds.
The first
look at Todd Haynes»
Wonderstruck is here and it's beautiful.
Wonderstruck «s Edward Lachman, a two - time Oscar nominee for Todd Haynes» Far From Heaven and Carol, also
looks very good for a nomination even if the film falters in the top of the line categories.
Cannes hasn't been the best launching point for major Oscar contenders as of late (for winners, at least) so
looking to the two highest profile films that lost —
Wonderstruck and Happy End — I don't think their losses here will have a big impact on their awards chances.
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wonderstruck
For those
looking for a repeat of the simmering, masterfully contained beauty that is CAROL,
WONDERSTRUCK may not match those expectations.
Both
Wonderstruck (at its worst moments) and Extremely Loud (in its entirety) perform an accidental bit of self - nullification: they want us to appreciate the magic of our own world by immersing us in something that
looks and sounds almost nothing like it.