Ava DuVernay's A WRINKLE IN TIME, based on the Madeleine L'Engle book

"So why are you Welsh again?" "Look, shut up."

The book has a particular homespun charm and sheer weirdness that's impossible to pull off at the scale the studio intended. Plus, how do you show IT in 2018 without the audience rolling in the aisles?

i get Golden Compass vibes from this, though i think this is probably more expensive.

Seventies Disney could have made a good movie out of it... like, call John Hough and let him take a crack at it

decidedly mixed reviews

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5450-the-daily-ava-duvernay-s-a-wrinkle-in-time

This is a weird movie to spend a hundred million dollars on . The story could be served by ten million and some far-out editing.

While waiting in the theater lobby before Black Panther this weekend, I spent several long moments standing before the Wrinkle In Time display and contemplating the random assemblage of objects pasted on Oprah's face, and I could so clearly visualize her character breaking into an impromptu futterwacken. It was disheartening.

Anyone heard the Sade song?

if the book is filmable, it seems to really want to be a mid-budget 70s/early 80s thing with a lot of eerily-lit and grainy/ugly uncanniness. like a "something wicked this way comes" or "watcher in the woods," or "children of the stones" ... something slow and unsettling. something that feels like the old book jackets. this seems wayyyy too bright, colorful, and pacey.

xpost -- yup, it's a treat.

As Meg’s precocious brother Charles Wallace, young Deric McCabe shows plenty of pluck, but his character’s shtick soon grows grating.

sounds about right

I haven't read L'Engle in a long time, but I recently found a copy of this children's book she did.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51bOPO1IC8L.jpg

I got it because it has nice Giotto prints, but L'Engle's style has this amazing tone for a kids' book, like Biblical cadence mixed with simple writing for kids.

Jesus was spared from the slaughter because Joseph had taken Mary and Jesus and fled into Egypt.
When Herod was dead, again an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "FEAR NOT! Herod is dead. Take the child and return to the land of Israel, for those who wanted to murder him are now dead."
Did Jesus know about all the babies killed because of him?

Peter said, "Lord, I am prepared to go with you, even to prison and to death."
"And I say to you, Peter," Jesus said, "that the cock will not crow today before you deny all knowledge of me three times."
Judas left the upper room. And it was night.
And Judas went out into the dark.
Into the dark.

Caiaphas then tore his clothes in the prescribed ceremonial gesture. And they all agreed that Jesus deserved to die.
Peter wept bitterly.
And Judas went out and hanged himself.

They spat at him, took the reed, and hit him with it. How is it that human beings find it easy and even, alas, pleasurable to hurt another human being? Jesus came to live with us to show us how to be human, truly human; and for this love he was betrayed, mocked, feared.
Will we ever learn to be human?

I love her so much.

Okay, just saw it and hands down GREAT, simply wonderful -- it made me absolutely happy to see a film that quite simply avoided cynicism. Earnest in a very moving way, a fusion of the original book's plot and general characters and DuVernay and team's skills. There's absolutely a ton going on on various levels in terms of making a very mid-century and white American story a much more current one on many levels, and then expanding on it -- and believe me, it's a story that aims directly at a young female audience and, from my own inevitably removed perspective, surely hits several bullseyes over and again. Plus it's just gorgeous to look at. Sorry any cynics, this is a keeper.

glad to hear it!

I don't want to see it, but my daughters - young and female both - do, so I will let you know if they feel inspired and empowered.

I took children to see it and they loved it. Especially the two 12 year olds girls. They were crying, gasping, hiding their eyes, immediately requesting to see it a second time, etc. Agree that it's nice to see a children's film that is sincere. And also not animated - so sick of the look of cgi kids films and I think my children are too.

Some lovely songs to hear ultra-loud in the cinema too.

I only just discovered the other day that Sade briefly emerged from hiding to record a song for the soundtrack before disappearing back into the ether.

I really didn't care for this at all, and even my son - who's fairly uncritical of most movies - was pretty 'meh' and preferred the book. Too brightly lit and colorful as noted upthread, it needed more eerieness. Fudderwacken mention not far off the mark.

My kids (10 and 13, girls) and wife were all meh.

My 8 year old nephew was disappointed in it. He loves the books.

saw this on an airplane and my god it is atrociously bad. principal kid actors put in a great effort (Meg and Calvin were great, Charle Wallace was... OK) but it's like... did anyone involved even read the book?

yeah really glad i skipped this one

i'm guessing they're not filming the sequels?