Review 473: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is a marvellous indie bio pic, a fascinating look at the creation of one of the worlds most iconic superheroes.

In 1928, Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans) teaches psychology and is  close to inventing the lie detector
While Marston's feminist superhero was criticised by censors for her "sexual perversity" he was keeping a secret that could have destroyed him.
Marston's muses for the Wonder Woman character were his wife Elizabeth Marston (Rebecca Hall) and one of their students Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote), two empowered women who defied convention: working with Marston on human behaviour research - while building a hidden life with him that rivaled the greatest Superhero disguises.

At it's core, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is a film about tolerance in intolerant times.

Writer/director Angela Robinson's direction is precise and  the cinematography is stunning and captures the beauty of 1920's Cambridge, Massachusetts. The production design (recreating the 20's) is excellent, the costumes are terrific, the score by Tom Howe is beautiful

Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall & Bella Heathcote are superb in their roles. They managed to survive in a time where their practices would not have been tolerated or accepted or even understood.
William Moulton Marston was very much a man who was ahead of his time, he was always thinking outside the box

Oliver Platt and Connie Britton also appear in this film playing historical figures, Max Gaines and Josette Frank respectively.

4/5.

The Anonymous Critic.