The Wonders

A meditative coming-of-age story that unveils the fragile world of a family living far from civilization and leading an almost self-sufficient lifestyle.

Young Gelsomina and her sisters live in an Italian village with their parents, who are beekeepers. Their lives change unexpectedly when a television crew arrives to film a show about a "traditional" Italian family. Under pressure from her father, who seeks to maintain control over the family, Gelsomina increasingly retreats into her own fantasies, dreaming of another world.

In this film, as in her others, Rohrwacher manages to sustain a unique tone of her reinvented magical realism, making the audience feel the elusive yet undeniably present magic that permeates the air.

 Jury Grand Prix at Cannes.