Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Wonder” showing Nov. 11-17 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.
“The Wonder” – starring Academy Award-nominee Florence Pugh – is the tale of a young Irish girl, Anna O’Donnell, whose Catholic family claim she has eaten nothing since her eleventh birthday … four months ago.
The Irish Midlands, 1862: A young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O’Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months.
Is the village harboring a saint ‘surviving on manna from heaven’ or are there more ominous motives at work?
“The Wonder” is a psychological thriller inspired by the 19th century phenomenon of the “fasting girls” and adapted from the acclaimed novel by Emma Donoghue (Room).
“The Wonder” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre Nov. 11-17. Showtimes will be 4 p.m. on Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17; 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13; and 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 14.
Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.
