More from the movie corner of Graziella: The Wonders
This week’s film is an entrancing coming-of-age tale by Italian cinema’s new prodigy Alice Rohrwacher, starring her sister Alba. The winner of the Grand Prix at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, The Wonders (Le meraviglie) takes inspiration from the sisters’ memories of their childhood when working for their beekeeping parents. Mysteriously poised between dream and reality, Rohrwacher’s film is also a striking tribute to a vanishing way of life and an oblique nod to the problem of pesticides being used on crops to lethal effect on the bees. And like all good films, The Wonders contains some uncanny, unforgettably stark images, like the haunting one of bees crawling over the motionless and expressionless face of one of the girls.
Watch The Wonders on Kanopy here.
