Selma director stumbles with a messy adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s much-loved adventure starring Oprah WinfreyQuantum physics crumples in Ava DuVernay’s rainbow bright adaptation of Madeleine LEngle’s A Wrinkle in Time,allowing preteen science geek Meg (Storm Reid), her crush (Calvin) and her five-year-old genius brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) to blerp from soil to the screensaver fantasy-lands at the halt of the galaxy in search of her missing father (Chris Pine). Everything else is shiny and smooth, and including the ancient faces of the three witch-angels who guide the kiddies’ adventure. Mrs Whatsit,the youngest of the trio at two-billion-years-plus, has gotten made-over since L’Engle catalogued her thin gray bun and “mouth puckered like an autumn apple”. Now she looks like Reese Witherspoon – wait, or she is Reese Witherspoon – though it can he tough to declare under her hip-length red locks and pleated ballgown fashioned from pilfered sheets. Related: After Black Panther: can Hollywood maintain black visibility on screen? Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk