Wendy
Once, long ago, I was driving around with a friend, listening to French electronic music group M83. “I could sell Coca Cola to this” my friend said wryly, because she worked in advertising and she spent a lot of time thinking about how to sell Coca Cola. I say this because Beast of the Southern Wild filmmaker Benh Zeitlin’s new film Wendy—which reimagines the popular J. M. Barrie play/children’s story Peter Pan in New Orleans instead of London—feels like a two hour M83 music video. And not everyone will love that. But I did!
by Suzette Smith