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Critics Consensus: The Wonders offers a charming coming-of-age tale that doubles as a quietly effective tribute to a vanishing way of life.
Critic Consensus: The Wonders offers a charming coming-of-age tale that doubles as a quietly effective tribute to a vanishing way of life.
All Critics (64) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (2)
What's worth wondering at is the way writer-director Alice Rohrwacher illustrates the private world of an authentic and genuinely loving family.
A prize winner at the Cannes film festival, this naturalistic Italian drama presents a warm and credible portrait of a modern beekeeping family in the Tuscan countryside.
"The Wonders" is one of those films that's easier to experience than explain, which is almost always a good thing.
Terrence Malick comes to mind, too, in Rohrwacher's approach to storytelling - but without the American's sense of the symphonic and supernal.
Structurally, "The Wonders" suffers from awkward bulges and sags, especially toward the end. Still, it's a beautiful, richly imagined ride that doesn't end as much as evaporate into a dreamlike puff of smoke.
A story that frames a familiar conflict - the collision of modernity and tradition - in intriguingly off-center ways, alive with piercing detail.
Writer-director Alice Rohrwacher has a gentle, unassuming touch through most of the film, quietly observing the beekeepers' hard work and pre-modern lifestyle without condescension, and her leads are effectively natural.
"The Wonders" manages to examine its entire cast of characters, male and female, in a loving but clear and pitiless light.
The Wonders signals the maturation of a significant cinematic talent, and kudos to Jane Campion and her jury for recognizing as much.
The importance of family in these examples of Italian cinema continues. Although, fortunately, in a more original way rather than traditional. [Full review in Spanish]
A very particular story mixed with the poetry of a director that, with only two movies, already her its own language and style. [Full review in Spanish]
Even though is far from being perfect, Rohrwacher manages to built his own universe. [Full review in Spanish]
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