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A14 PEOPLE & ARTS
Wednesday 23 september 2020
Review: Millie Bobby Brown has fun with 'Enola Holmes'

By LINDSEY BAHR her first client.
There is a long, question- Brown is a natural star and
able and occasionally suc- seems to be having a lot
cessful tradition of spinning of fun with Enola and get-
off iconic literary and film ting to do something a little
characters through rela- more carefree than por-
tives distant and not from traying the trauma strick-
James Bond Jr. to John en Eleven. And besides a
Shaft II and III. In other gnarly head injury late in
words, it's not out of bounds the film, "Enola Holmes" is
that someone would come an all-ages endeavor.
along and invent a little sis- The biggest knock against
ter for Sherlock Holmes and "Enola Holmes" is it feels
eventually make a movie like it should or could have
out of it. been a series. It's very long
Enola Holmes is the cre- and even this first story
ation of American author feels naturally episodic as
Nancy Springer who wrote she goes back and forth
a series of six young adult between searching for
novels about Sherlock and her mother and helping
Mycroft's teenage sister Tewskbury. The second is
who becomes a detective that the screenplay is only
in her own right. The light- credited to Jack Thorne
hearted and enjoyable film This image released by Netflix shows Henry Cavill, from left, Millie Bobby Brown and Sam Claflin in and this script could have
adaptation stars "Stranger a scene from "Enola Holmes." benefitted from a woman's
Things'" Millie Bobby Brown Associated Press involvement. Its feminist
as the titular character in touchstones veer on cliché.
an origin story that is clear- Enola, who tries not to think read books and generally edges — no hat, no gloves, Brown did have a hand in
ly an attempt to start a too much about the signifi- don't seem all that con- no worries about manners producing the film, how-
franchise. Thankfully it isn't cance of the fact that her cerned with the upkeep of or decorum — and decide ever, which is itself a neat
merely a "set-up" film. name backwards spells anything but their minds. that she must be sent to fin- message. Whether or not
We're introduced to Enola "Alone," is clever and spirit- So it comes as a shock ishing school. it becomes a franchise will
by Enola herself, who breaks ed and wholly isolated from when Enola wakes up one Naturally, Enola is not ex- remain to be seen. "Enola
the fourth wall and directly the world and the social morning to find her mother cited about the prospect Holmes" was supposed to
addresses the camera and mores of Victorian-era Eng- gone. Even more discon- of finding a husband or be a theatrical release and
audience to tell us about land. She and her mother certing is when her brothers fitting into society and in- Netflix jumped in to take it
how her mother raised her (a lovely Helena Bonham- Sherlock (a probably too stead sneaks off to try to early in the pandemic. But
after her much older broth- Carter) who are fiercely buff Henry Cavill) and My- track down her mother in- regardless of whether or
ers left early. It's no surprise independent except from croft (Sam Claflin) return to stead. On her journey she not there are more, "Enola
that the director, Harry each other, use their stately take care of her and the es- becomes entangled in the Homes" is the kind of mov-
Bradbeer, directed almost mansion as a playground. tate, they don't recognize life of a fellow runaway, The ie that the preteen set will
every episode of "Fleabag," They practice archery and her. The grown men are Viscount Tewskbury, Mar- surely delight in and watch
which relied heavily on this tennis indoors, blow things also horrified that their little quess of Basilwether (Louis over and over. I know I
technique as well. up in the name of science, sister is so rough around the Partridge), who becomes would have.q

Hollywood unions, studios agree on rules to start production

television after six months pervisor to oversee it all. stated so long as their jobs
of stagnant sets and wide- It requires the use of a "zone still exist. "The protocols
spread unemployment. system" that strictly limits in- pave the way for creative
The Directors Guild of teractions between peo- workers, who have been
America, the International ple on sets based on their hard hit by the pandemic,
Alliance of Theatrical Stage job's requirements. Those to resume their crafts and
Employees, the Internation- who must deal with more livelihoods in workplaces
al Brotherhood of Team- people will be tested more redesigned around their
sters, the Basic Crafts unions frequently and have more health," the unions said in a
and the Screen Actors strict protective equipment joint statement.q
Guild-American Federation and spacing requirements. Solution Sudoku
of Television and Radio Art- Actors will be tested espe-
ists jointly announced the cially often because their
deal reached with the Alli- on-camera work won't al-
ance of Motion Picture and low for many protective
Television Producers after measures.
The Directors Guild of America headquarters is pictured on April months of planning and The agreement also gives
16, 2020, in Los Angeles. negotiating. 10 days of paid COVID-19
Associated Press The deal includes manda- sick leave per employee,
tory and comprehensive which can be used after
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Holly- pandemic protocols with use of personal protective positive tests or when quar-
wood's unions announced major studios that will al- gear and testing of cast antine is necessary, and
Monday that they have low the broad resumption and crew members, and a says that employees who
reached an agreement on of production of films and dedicated coronavirus su- use the leave must be rein- Puzzle on Page 13