Wonderstruck tells the dovetailing stories of two 12-year-olds, Ben (Oakes Fegley) and Rose (Millicent Simmonds), living 50 years apart.
(The film is being distributed by Amazon Studios in partnership with Roadside Attractions, the same duo that brought out Manchester by the Sea last year.) Streaming is a boon to anyone who might not be able to see the film otherwise.īut now that I’ve seen the extraordinary picture Haynes has made from Brian Selznick’s novel, I can’t imagine encountering it for the first time on a small screen. At some point after its release in theaters, viewers will be able to stream Todd Haynes’s new film, Wonderstruck-playing here in competition-and watch it wherever and however they please. And yet, at a time when the world seems to be cracking apart, a sense of community, even just communal film watching, could mean more than ever. In light of bigger crises faced by Europe, and the world, right now-an unusually large number of films here at the festival seek to address the refugee crisis-the finer points of how audiences see films isn’t particularly grave. But Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories, of course, remain in this year’s competition. As a result, Cannes officials have now changed the eligibility rules for next year. Netflix balked, largely because it couldn’t circumvent French film-distribution regulations that require a waiting period of 36 months between the opening of a film and the time it can be made available for streaming. Earlier this month, Cannes officials sought to persuade Netflix to find a way to bring the two films to French theaters before they’d be available to stream. Two entries in this year’s competition-Bong Joon Ho’s Okja and Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories-are Netflix films that are not slated for a theatrical release in France. It was only Day 2 of the 70th Cannes Film Festival and, already, there was a flutter of controversy: During the opening press conference, jury head Pedro Almodovar read a prepared statement, in Spanish, decrying the fact that new players in the film business, like Netflix, don’t always premiere their movies in theaters.
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