Netflix has released the trailer for Marvel star Florence Pugh’s new movie The Wonder.
The psychological drama is set in 1862 and follows Pugh as an English nurse, Lib Wright, who is called to the Irish Midlands to treat an 11-year-old girl who claims she hasn’t eaten for four months.
The trailer sees Pugh travel across country to a remote house cut off in a landscape reminiscent of Wuthering Heights, that is at the heart of a religious community.
Lib and a local nurse are ordered by a panel of men to take eight-hour watch shifts of Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy) and "on the 14th day, you will each present your separate testimony".
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When the priest, played by Harry Potter actor Ciarán Hinds, reveals that Anna has not eaten in months, Lib declares: "That’s impossible."
Lib starts her physical examination of the seemingly healthy child and asks: "Are you nervous at all?" to which Anna replies: "Why should I be nervous?"
Anna tells Lib that she feels full and doesn’t need to eat as she "live[s] on manna from heaven".
As the tense trailer picks up pace, Lib states that Anna is in danger, while the community is divided about their opinion on the child with some calling her chosen by God, others labelling her an actress.
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"I’m here to find out the truth," Lib tells Anna. However, Lib becomes more desperate for answers, begging Hinds’ character for assistance.
Meanwhile, the locals become convinced that it was a mistake to invite an English nurse to aid a fasting Irish girl back to health, as tensions are still in place after the Great Famine.
Lib becomes more distressed and teary-eyed, as the trailer ends with what appears to be Anna’s bed set alight, before the whole house is engulfed in flames.
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The tense thriller is an adaptation of the bestselling novel by Emma Donoghue, the writer of Room, and is co-written by director Donoghue, Sebastián Lelio and Alice Birch.
The movie also stars Tom Burke (The Musketeers), Elaine Cassidy (Harper’s Island), Niamh Algar (The Virtues) and Toby Jones (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom).
After its debut at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, The Wonder has received glowing reviews with The Hollywood Reporter calling it: "Perhaps the finest achievement to date of the Chilean director Sebastián Lelio… [and] a monumental performance by Florence Pugh."
The Wonder is released in select UK cinemas on November 2 and on Netflix on November 16.
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