‘Wonderstruck’ Trailer: Director Todd Haynes Crafts A Whirlwind Journey Of Discovery
By Ben Pearson/Sept. 20, 2017 8:30 am EST
Wonderstruck trailer
Looking at Haynes’ filmography, I’m just now realizing that I’ve only seen his romantic drama Carol and his lush HBO adaptation of Mildred Pierce, so I can’t make any sort of sweeping statements about how Wonderstruck might fit into his larger body of work. David Erhlich at Indiewire calls it “a soul-stirring and fiercely uncynical film,” and that seems to be representative of critics’ opinions about the movie thus far: it’s currently sitting at a 73% on Rotten Tomatoes. To me, this looks fascinating as an aesthetic exercise, with Haynes choosing to shoot his two protagonists using entirely different visual palettes, and I’m interested to see how that decision plays out contextually when I’m sitting in a theater to watch it for myself.
Oakes Fegley (Pete’s Dragon) stars along with a young actor named Millicent Simmonds, who’s deaf in real life, and veterans like Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, and James Urbaniak round out the cast.Wonderstruck arrives in theaters on October 20, 2017.
