![]() ![]() He’s got a family searching for him, as well as a creepy assassin in a brown bowler hat (Burn Gorman, great for this sort of role). He’s her age, and he’d rather wander through woods than settle into his recently-acquired title and head to the House of Lords to vote on upcoming legislation. ![]() The film is, ultimately, a tale about voting rights and voter suppression-championing a government which seeks to support all its citizens rather than the gentry.Įnola finds a companion for her trip, after she helps out a teenager similarly on the lam-t he Viscount Tewkesbury, Marquess of Basilwether (Louis Partridge). ![]() But he also doesn’t seem to be in any great rush. They are very easy clues (lots of letter-rearranging, Enola’s strong suit), so it’s a real wonder why Sherlock has not cracked them first, since he’s apparently so smart. But the vivacious and unflappable Enola gets the better of them both, disguising as a boy and absconding for London, following a set of clues that her mother has left behind. He’s going to find their runaway mother, while Mycroft wrangles their sister. Sherlock (played as ‘the strong and silent type’ for maybe the first time ever) mostly stares out of windows and reads the newspaper. He wants to send her to a finishing school run by the stern Miss Harrison (Fiona Shaw) so that she can learn manners and find a husband. Mycroft is annoyed that their nutty mother has allowed her daughter to gallivant all over the countryside, and play tennis in the drawing room, and speak her mind and all of that flaff. However, once the Holmes brothers-the stuffy Mycroft (Sam Claflin, garrulous and rodentlike) and Sherlock (Henry Cavill, again a man of steel, but in mien instead of might)-do arrive, they cause more problems than they promise to fix. Because he is Sherlock Holmes, who can solve any case, and find anybody. If the oldest won’t be able to help, she is sure the second one can. One is a high-up government employee, and the other is a famous private detective. Fortunately, Enola believes she’ll have some help-from her two, much older brothers whom she has not seen since she was small. Enola knows that her mother has left, rather than been taken-and because of their indelible bond, would not have done so without very good reason. Enola’s beloved, iconoclastic, wacky mother (Helena Bonham Carter-who else?) has suddenly vanished from the rural estate home where they have spent the last sixteen years being virtually inseparable. Still, this latter detail is an interesting proposition for a film whose central motivation is the pursuit of another person. ![]() In the film, which is written by Jack Thorne and deftly directed by Harry Bradbeer (of Fleabag and Killing Eve fame), Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) tells the viewer directly that because of this, she’s always thought of herself just as much as “alone” as “Enola,” but we also learn other things about her from this moment: that she loves words, and anagrams, and that she does not mind being on her own. “Enola” is an anagram of the word “alone”-that’s one of the first things you’ll learn from the eponymous, sixteen-year-old heroine in the droll new Netflix movie Enola Holmes, set in 1884 and based on the YA novel series by Nancy Springer. ![]()
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