This Netflix adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s sweeping novel All the Light We Cannot See swaps intricate storytelling for wartime action scenes.
You’re never going to please everyone with an adaptation of a much loved book, but Netflix’s new series based on Anthony Doerr’s 2014who read the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Mercifully, there’s some big-budget production design and solid performances to ease the pain, particularly that of first-time actor Aria Mia Loberti, who plays Marie-Laure LeBlanc. As in the book, time jumps around, and we’re first introduced to Marie in 1944, as American warplanes bombard occupied Saint Malo, a coastal city in the north-west of France.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea –
What makes Marie’s work with the Resistance remarkable is that she has been blind since childhood – and Loberti is also vision impaired, having auditioned for the role after a global callout for VI actors. For a debut actor, Loberti is remarkable, the best thing about the series.
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