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The Wonders

Le meraviglie (The Wonders)

2014

Alice Rohrwacher

Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck, Alba Rohrwacher, Sabine Timoteo ...

6.3

2,009

Drama Nothing will be the same at the end of this summer for Gelsomina and her three younger sisters. She is the designated heir of the strange, secluded kingdom that her father constructed around them to protect his family from “the end of the world”. An extraordinary summer, when the strict rules that hold the family together, are beginning to break: in part due to the arrival of Martin, a German boy on a youth rehabilitation program, and ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A gentle, humorous, and sweet-natured coming-of-age story (...) there is charm, though it is a little sentimental and undemanding, without the real emotional power that many were expecting from Rohrbacher (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"
		Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A wistful but no-tears swan song recounting the disappearance of traditional rural life-style in Italy (...) The tone hovers mysteriously between dream and reality"
		Jay Weissberg Variety	"An appealing yet oddly insubstantial work, like an early impressionist sketch in need of a little more focus, and perhaps a more suitable frame"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Small and sweet in every good way, but alive with a power that seems to surge up from deep beneath its sun-roughened landscape. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"
		Dave Calhoun Time Out	"A personal, intimate film riffing on the wonderful strangeness of families - equally capable of love and destructiveness, happiness and despair, often all at the same time. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"

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