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Bayona embraces fairy tales in A Monster Calls. Built around a series of encounters between the titular monster, a sentient tree voiced by Liam Neeson, and a boy whose mother (Felicity Jones) is fighting cancer, the film brings some of the creepiness of the Spaniard\'s 2. The Orphanage to what might otherwise be mildly sappy family fare. A neither- this- nor- that quality may make this pic tough for marketers, but taken together, Bayona\'s three features represent fine qualifications for his gig at the helm of 2. Jurassic World sequel. British pre- teen Conor (Lewis Mac. Dougall) has been having horrific nightmares during his mother\'s long illness, watching over and over as a hole opens violently in the earth beneath a nearby church. So it\'s almost not surprising when, late one night, the majestic old tree beside that church writhes wildly into life, stomps over to the child\'s window, and announces (in Liam Neeson\'s voice), . In the daytimes between these visits, though, Conor must contend with bullying at school and the prospect of being looked after by his chilly grandmother (Sigourney Weaver, with an iffy English accent). As neither is very happy- making, he spends lots of time drawing (surprisingly well) in notebooks. When the monster comes back (the camera notices that it\'s at 1. The film brings the tales to life stylishly, with a mix of techniques that often echo Conor\'s drawing style. Each starts off like familiar storybook stuff — widowed king who remarries evil witch; prince who loses his lovely girlfriend — before wrapping up unexpectedly. When the new queen turns out not to be evil, for instance, depriving us of the payoff we expect, the monster defends his story thusly: . A MONSTER CALLS The monster showed up just after midnight. Conor was awake when it came. Well, not a nightmare. The one he\'d been having a lot lately.The one with the darkness and the wind and the The. And while we don\'t really need for Conor\'s literature teacher to spell things out by insisting there are . There\'s Dad, for instance (Toby Kebbell, star of Black Mirror\'s brilliant episode . Dad divorced Mom and started a new family in America; visiting Conor now, he has to make his concern for his ex jibe with the fact that they split. A Monster Calls A Monster Calls Fernando Vel An adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel, A Monster Calls is about a 12 year old boy who struggles to come to terms with his mother\'s battle with cancer. I remember reading the book a few years ago and was moved by the unique perspective of such a tragic. A few years ago, Siobhan Dowd and I were both shortlisted for a book award in Germany. Shortly before the ceremony, she died. At the venue I told my minder that Siobhan\'s agent had come ready with a speech in case she won. Because you like to cry a lot. No, but seriously, if you\'ve ever lost someone you loved—especially to cancer—you\'ll feel A Monster Calls with every fiber of your being. Okay, so you may not have watched your mom die of cancer, but there are all kinds.
Sometimes, he explains, love stories end . The yew tree\'s branches wrap scarily around the boy, swallowing him up as the storytelling takes over his imagination; the tree\'s magic doesn\'t solve the boy\'s problems by . Surprised when his grief- fueled outbursts of violence aren\'t punished by parents or principals, Conor is asked more than once, . Bayona. Screenwriter: Patrick Ness. Producer: Belen Atienza. Executive producers: Patrick Ness, Jeff Skoll, Bill Pohlad, Jonathan King, Mitch Horwits, Patrick Wachsberger, Enrique Lopez- Lavigne, Ghislain Barrois, Alvaro Augustin. Director of photography: Oscar Faura. Production designer: Eugenio Caballero. Costume designer: Steven Noble. Editors: Bernat Vilaplana, Jaume Marti. Composer: Fernando Velazquez. Casting director: Shaheen Baig. Rated PG- 1. 3, 1.
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