Wendy — Benh Zeitlin's long-awaited follow-up to 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'—tells Peter Pan's story from a female perspective. Read Peter Travers' review
And they’re off — and so is the movie, which removes every trace of Hollywood slickness and botched avant-gardism from this oft-told tale. The magic realism that Zeitlin conjures up with cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, his sister’s Eliza Zeitlin’s keenly-imagined production design and the beguiling score he composed with Dan Romer radiates an elemental, DIY energy. It’s a roughed-up, lived-in take on the bedtime story.
It’s here that the life goes out of the party and things start to drift from exhilarating to enervating. Instead of pirates, we get a group of aging, depressive adults who think they need to capture Mother to become young again. Instead of Captain Hook, we get a James who cuts off his hand on Peter’s orders as a means to stay young, and maybe find his brother Douglas who’s gone missing. Instead of flying, we get the threat of crashing on jagged rocks.
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