The Film Society of Lincoln Center just announced Todd Haynes’s Wonderstruck as the prestigious Centerpiece selection of the 55th New York Film Festival (September 28 – October 15). The film, which rvteams the director with Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven), will make its New York Premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Saturday, October 7. (It will be released theatrically by Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions on October 20, 2017.)
From the NYFF release describing the film:
“In 1977, following the death of his single mother, Ben (Oakes Fegley) loses his hearing in a freak accident and makes his way from Minnesota to New York, hoping to learn about the father he has never met. A half-century earlier, another deaf 12-year-old, Rose (Millicent Simmonds), flees her restrictive Hoboken home, captivated by the bustle and romance of the nearby big city. Each of these parallel adventures, unfolding largely without dialogue, is an exuberant love letter to a bygone era of New York. The mystery of how they ultimately converge, which involves Julianne Moore in a lovely dual role, provides the film’s emotional core. Adapted from a young-adult novel by The Invention of Hugo Cabret author Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck is an all-ages enchantment, entirely true to director Todd Haynes’s sensibility: an intelligent, deeply personal, and lovingly intricate tribute to the power of obsession.”
New York Film Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones said, “Todd Haynes and Brian Selznick have pulled off something truly remarkable here—a powerful evocation of childhood, with all of its mysteries and terrors and flights of imagination and longings; richly textured re-creations of Manhattan in the ’20s and the ’70s; and a magical and intricately plotted quest story that builds to a beautiful climax. Wonderstruck is fun, emotionally potent, and . . . it’s a great New York movie.”
The NYFF presented Hayne’s last film, the acclaimed “Carol,” starring Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett, only two years ago. And The New York Film Festival also showcased Haynes’s works Velvet Goldmine in 1998, I’m Not There in 2007.
The 18-day New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, featuring works from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent.
Earlier this summer, NYFF announced Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying as the Opening Night selection.
Tickets for the 55th New York Film Festival will go on sale September 10
