Hoping to keep away from the extent of behind-the-scenes drama that haunted Do not Fear Darling, Florence Pugh might be again on our screens in The Surprise, which pits science in opposition to religion and completely different cultures in battle. See the trailer…

The Surprise is ready within the Irish Midlands in 1862, the place a younger lady stops consuming however stays miraculously alive and properly. English nurse Lib Wright (Pugh, going full Scully in her investigation) is dropped at a tiny village to watch 11-year previous Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy).

Vacationers and pilgrims mass to witness the lady who is alleged to have survived with out meals for months. Is the village harbouring a saint ‘surviving on manna from heaven’ or are there extra ominous motives at work?

The supporting forged for this one is stacked, together with Tom Burke, Niamh Algar, Elaine Cassidy, Toby Jones, Dermot Crowley, Brían F. O’Byrne and Ciarán Hinds.

Directed by Sebastián Lelio, who labored with Room‘s Emma Donahue and Alice Birch to adapt Donahue’s guide, The Surprise might be out in choose UK cinemas on 2 November earlier than hitting Netflix on 16 November.

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