In her first Netflix project, Florence Pugh will take the lead in The Wonder, an eerie new period drama which tells the true story of the 19th century social phenomenon of the “fasting girls.”
You may also likeBased on the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author Emma Donoghue’s 2016 novel of the same name, the film is set in rural central Ireland in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-1800s and tells the tale of an 11-year-old girl named Anna O’Donnell who has stopped eating but remains miraculously alive and well.
As you can imagine, it’s a story of fervent faith versus scientific reason as Wright tries to uncover what’s keeping the “miracle girl” alive. What gives the film an added dimension, though, is that it’s actually based on a famous historical phenomenon, whereby girls across Europe in the Victorian era claimed to be able to survive for months without eating.
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