The Wonder
- Cinelab Film & Digital
- Oct 31, 2022
- 1 min read
Directed by Sebastián Lelio and lensed by Director of Photography Ari Wegner, THE WONDER benefitted from Cinelab’s analog intermediate process, transferring digitally captured footage to film, and then processing & scanning back to digital, with an authentic film look applied.
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Starring Florence Pugh and based on the book by Emma Donoghue, writer of ROOM. THE WONDER is the tale of a young Irish girl, Anna O'Donnell, whose Catholic family claim she has eaten nothing since her eleventh birthday... four months ago.
THE WONDER will be released in select theatres 4 Nov.
Watch THE WONDER on Netflix 16 Nov.
The use of 35mm film for The Wonder creates a visceral tactile quality that perfectly complements the story’s themes of faith and starvation. The flickering candlelight and deep shadows bring a 19th-century authenticity that digital sensors often struggle to replicate without looking too clean. I’ve seen many film students who are struggling with the physics of light and exposure ratios reach out for a Math Assignment Help Service in Australia to master the inverse square law and lens geometry. It is this marriage of scientific precision and artistic intuition that makes the film so compelling to watch. Did the decision to shoot on film change the way the actors approached the long takes in those quiet interior scenes?