Trailer Watch: Florence Pugh Investigates a Thriller in “The Marvel”

From Fifties American housewife to 1860s English nurse, Florence Pugh is following up her position in Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Fear Darling” by going even additional again in time in “The Marvel,” a drama set 13 years after the Nice Famine. A trailer for the Netflix pic introduces us to Lib (Pugh), who’s summoned to the Irish Midlands beneath unusual circumstances. The healthcare employee been despatched to a religious neighborhood to conduct a weeks-long examination over Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy), an 11-year-old lady who claims to not have eaten for 4 months. “It’s not your job to query us,” she’s instructed. “You might be right here solely to observe.”

Described as the whole lot from “an actress” to “chosen,” Anna appears to confound Lib. It’s not lengthy earlier than Lib is doing what she’s been warned in opposition to — questioning the neighborhood. “I’m right here to seek out out the reality,” she says.

“The Marvel” relies on Emma Donoghue’s guide of the identical identify. The “Room” novelist and screenwriter penned the script for “The Marvel” alongside Sebastián Lelio, the movie’s director, and Alice Birch, the screenwriter behind Pugh’s breakout pic, “Girl Macbeth.”

Pugh obtained an Oscar nod for “Little Ladies.” “Black Widow,” “Midsommar,” and “Combating with My Household” are amongst her different credit.

“The Marvel” hits choose theaters November 2 and launches on Netflix November 16. It made its world premiere at Telluride in September.