Amazon Studios has delivered the first trailer for Todd Haynes new film, WONDERSTRUCK. Starring Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams, the film looks like it will be an intoxicating and visually handsome adaptation of Brian Selznick’s (writer of Hugo) illustrated tale of two deaf runaways and the glimmering, redemptive magic of cinema.
Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. From the confines of Minnesota in 1977, Ben (Oakes Fegley) longs for the father he has never known, while Rose (13-year-old deaf actor Millicent Simmonds) dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook in 1927. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his home and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out on quests to find what they are missing that unfold with mesmerizing symmetry.
The trailer shows Haynes’ mastery of delivering visually engaging stories in both colour and black and white, with glorious photography by veteran cinematographer Edward Lachman, who collaborated with Haynes on Far from Heaven, Weiner Dog, and Carol. There’s also the obligatory use of a David Bowie song in a trailer, which will never cease to get old.
Following its debut at Cannes, and a screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August, WONDERSTRUCK will hit US theaters in limited release on 20 October, followed by a wider release in November. Australia will see it in wide release on 26 October 2017 from Roadshow Films.
