Screening Room: ‘The Wonders’

A sweet and strange offering from Italy,The Wonders opens this week in limited release. My review is atFilm Journal International:

The state of the ramshackle Tuscan farmhouse inhabited by the family whose members dart and gambol all through The Wonders, Alice Rohrwacher’s sleepy one-ring circus of a film, perfectly mirrors their everyday state of affairs. It’s beautiful in its way but not exactly well-maintained. Nevertheless, it stays up, just like this family stays together even as many o...