Justin Chang reviews “Paddington in Peru,” starring Ben Whishaw, Olivia Colman, and Hugh Bonneville, and “Universal Language,” directed by Matthew Rankin.
King has since abdicated the director’s chair, and the newly arrived “Paddington in Peru” marks the feature début of Dougal Wilson, who brings a more stolid, workmanlike touch to the proceedings. But Wilson also introduces a fresh frame of cinematic reference. The story was nearly half over before I realized that I was watching a family movie as reimagined by Werner Herzog.
In one giddy moment, Colman sings, strums a guitar, and twirls in a circle in a suspiciously Austrian-looking corner of Peru—a sequence of goofy sublimity that nonetheless leaves behind a whiff of unease, as if neither she nor this movie’s relentlessly high spirits are entirely to be trusted. Once inside the classroom, you may fear an incipient attack of the whimsies.
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