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‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’
Wes Anderson is having a great year. In the span of just four months, Anderson released a feature film, Asteroid City, and premiered four short films inspired by the work of Roald Dahl on Netflix. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, which clocks in at just 39 minutes, is the longest of the bunch. It’s not Anderson’s first time adapting Dahl’s work, but it’s his first time doing it in live action, since Fantastic Mr. Fox is a stop-motion animated film. The best way to describe The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is to call it an audiobook with visuals, all narration and no real conversation — and in no way is that a bad thing. Anderson’s highly stylized filmmaking actually lends itself quite perfectly to this “tell and show” approach to the story, which follows Henry, a man who sets out to learn how to see without his eyes in order to cheat at gambling after reading about a man who had perfected this skill. Anderson’s style combined with five actors (Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Dev Patel, and Richard Ayoade) who all turn in performances that are as whimsical as they are grounded make for the perfect bite-sized feature.
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