Wander

Réalisé par April Mullen

Canada / États-Unis, 2020 (fiction, 94 minutes, couleurs, anglais)

Autre titre : « Conspiración Wander »

Description du film [en anglais] :
« After getting hired to probe a suspicious death in the small town of Wander, a mentally unstable private investigator becomes convinced the case is linked to the same 'conspiracy cover up' that caused the death of his daughter. »
-- Saban Films (source)

Générique (partiel) :
Scénario :	Tim Doiron
Produit par :	Jason Allison, Mary Aloe, April Mullen, Chad A. Verdi
Interprètes principaux :	Aaron Eckhart, Tommy Lee Jones, Katheryn Winnick, Heather Graham, Raymond Cruz, Brendan Fehr, Roger Dorman, Nicole Steinwedell, Tylannie Smith-Scott, Deborah Chavez, David Gibson, Alaina Warren Zachary, Sheryl Bailey, Ian McLaren, Elizabeth Selby, Benjamin Barrett, Ramona King, Marvin Gouch, Moses Munoz, Colby Crain, Celine R. Lopez, Tim Doiron, Jennifer Paredes, Adam Falkoff, Helene Wren, Harriet Divine, Mickey Moon
Images :	Russ De Jong, Gavin Smith
Montage images :	Luke Higginson
Musique :	Alexandra Mackenzie
Société de production :	Saban Films, Ingenious Media, Wango Films

(sources)

Notes sur Wander

Tourné à Albuquerque (Nouveau-Mexique) et à Carrizozo (Nouveau-Mexique).

(sources)

Citation de la réalisatrice [en anglais]

« Wander is a whirlwind of moments strung together depicting a human being pushing through grief and time to move forward and seek an individual's truth. I am in awe of all those people who fight for the light, hope and love on a daily basis. These Silent Warriors are often marginalized, alienated, judged, and if they are racialized disproportionally criminalized, targeted with discrimination and violence, and often, sadly their lives taken as they try to speak out. Even through the dizzying mania of grief and mental illness, Arthur fights for the truth and his beliefs at all costs. »
-- April Mullen (source)

Citations sur Wander [en anglais]

« [In Wander] there is some pleasure to be had in watching an atypically frenetic Aaron Eckhart as a PTSD-afflicted loner wading deep into possibly-imagined evildoings in the Southwest, with Tommy Lee Jones and Heather Graham also welcome as two allies. Still, the film's hyperbolic style and convoluted storytelling tend to exhaust patience rather than build intrigue, making for a muddle whose too-many twists and turns ultimately seem meaningless as well as implausible. »
-- Dennis Harvey (source)

« [In Wander] the frantic filmmaking is obviously meant to reflect our hero's frantic mind, but it winds up giving you a migraine and actually undermines the whole setup: If Bretnik is already this crazy then why should we even bother following him all the way down the rabbit hole? »
-- Jordan Mintzer (source)

« Director April Mullen shoots Wander like a kinetic horror film, which results in some pretty cool sequences but also far too many quick-cut flashbacks to the deadly auto accident, which results in us feeling more annoyed and manipulated than intrigued. »
-- Richard Roeper (source)

Publications de la réalisatrice sur Wander

MULLEN, April. « How filmmaker April Mullen incorporated her Indigenous tradition and roots on the set of 'Wander' (guest blog) », The Wrap, 21 décembre 2020. [en anglais]

Bibliographie sur Wander

Articles de journaux, de revues grand public ou de sites d'information en ligne

HARVEY, Dennis. « 'Wander' review: An energized Aaron Eckhart goes down a murky conspiracy wormhole; Director April Mullen and writer Tim Doiron's latest collaboration is a paranoid thriller too twisty for its own good », critique de Wander, Variety, 4 décembre 2020. [en anglais]
MINTZER, Jordan. « 'Wander': film review », critique de Wander, Hollywood Reporter, 17 septembre 2020. [en anglais]
ROEPER, Richard. « 'Wander': Aaron Eckhart makes a great conspiracy theorist, and he isn't acting alone; Tommy Lee Jones is a hoot as his trust-no-one sidekick in the bonkers paranoia thriller », critique de Wander, Chicago Sun-Times, 2 décembre 2020. [en anglais]

Sites Web sur Wander

« IMDb: Wander », Internet Movie Database, Inc, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9689696/reference. [en anglais]
« Wander », Saban Films, https://www.sabanfilms.com/films/wander/. [site officiel] [en anglais]