New York isn’t the only lucky American city to get this Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner. Opens 10/30: Put it on your calendar.
For a long time The Wonders was on everybody’s list of ‘Best Films Without A Distribution Agreement’, but finally America is getting the chance to see Alice Rohrwacher’s acclaimed work.
Rohrwacher, just 34, enlisted her sister Alba Rohrwacher, truly one of Italy’s best actors working today, to play the lead in this slightly autobiographical story about an eccentric family of beekeepers that toils and survives, just barely, on a run down farm somewhere in Toscana.
Keeping bees and making honey with the family run business. Wolfgang, her severe father, depends heavily on her and her sisters’ labor to keep the family afloat, and the responsibilities given them leaves little room for normal childhood activities.
When Monica Bellucci shows up as a TV star filming in the area with a contest and the chance to be on TV, young Gelsomina sees her school friends trying out for it and wants to do the same, but knows her Dad won’t approve, so she enters in secret.
Meanwhile back at the farm, Dad’s in trouble because his honey making enterprise isn’t up to government standards, and he needs money. A foster child, a disturbed boy from Germany, is taken in to help pay the bills, and animals are sold. The contest, Bellucci, and television in general are foolish absurdities as far as Wolfgang is concerned, but he needs the money, so he goes along with it.
The film opens October 30th in NYC and then will show in major cities around the country, including LA, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Denver, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Miami, San Diego, Boston and more.
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