Discovery

I’m running way behind of Sundance reviews, so I’m going to a quick rapid-fire run down to get a couple films out of the way.

Pheobe in Wonderland stars Elle Fanning, the young, cuter, not as freakishly smart, sister of Dakota, who was the talk of the town at last year’s festival with Hounddog (a disgusting film which explored child rape and has since never been released). Phoebe is a young girl whose obsessive compulsive behavior is getting her in trouble at school. She joins the school play and is cast as Alice, and goes further down the rabbit hole of depression into her own Wonderland. I really dug her performance in John August’s The Nines at last year’s fest, and we begin to see her true range in this film. Phoebe has incredible art direction, a couple nice performances, and a nice third act twist which you probably won’t se coming. 7/10