'Wonderstruck': A Lifeless Diorama About Lifeless Dioramas
Todd Haynes follows up Carol with this New York fable set in different time periods, but "there's little room left for insight and emotion in this overstuffed cabinet of curiosities."
Todd Haynes may not have been at the top of anyone's list of potential kiddie-movie directors before Wonderstruck, but the movie does dovetail with several of the filmmaker's previous projects.
Scripted by Brian Selznick from his own novel, invokes David Bowie and Oscar Wilde, two of the muses of Haynes' . The story is set mostly in New York. The film alternates between a pair of timelines, the first rendered in a black-and-white cinematic pastiche that recalls one story in Haynes' narrative triptych . The making of dioramas also figures in the movies themes â vast creations spiritually akin to the Barbie-doll world Haynes constructed for .
