To The Wonder (2013)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 147
Fresh: 64 | Rotten: 83
To the Wonder demonstrates Terrence Malick's gift for beautiful images, but its narrative is overly somber and emotionally unsatisfying.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 27
To the Wonder demonstrates Terrence Malick's gift for beautiful images, but its narrative is overly somber and emotionally unsatisfying.
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TO THE WONDER tells the story of Marina (Kurylenko) and Neil (Affleck), who meet in France and move to Oklahoma to start a life together, where problems soon arise. While Marina makes the acquaintance of a priest and fellow exile (Bardem), who is struggling with his vocation, Neil renews a relationship with a childhood sweetheart, Jane (McAdams). Bold and lyrical, the film is a moving, gorgeously shot exploration of love in its many forms. Written and directed by Terrence Malick.(c) Official
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Cast
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Ben Affleck
Neil -
Olga Kurylenko
Marina -
Rachel McAdams
Jane -
Javier Bardem
Father Quintana -
Tatiana Chiline
Tatiana -
Romina Mondello
Anna -
Tony O'Gans
Sexton -
Charles Baker
Carpenter -
Marshall Bell
Bob -
Casey Rogers William...
Neighbor #1 -
Jack Hines
Neighbor #2 -
Paris Always
Classmate #1 -
Samaria Folks
Classmate #2 -
Jamie Conner
Teenage Girl with Ba... -
Francis Gardner
Woman at Wedding -
Greg Elliot
Parish Council Presi... -
Michael Bumpus
Doctor -
Lois Boston
Lois -
Danyeil Inman
Homeless Woman -
Bobby Davis Horsley
Convict -
Wigi Black
Lori -
Ashley L. Clark
Deaf Woman -
Terry York
Interpreter -
Darryl Cox
Neighbor #3 -
William Riddle
Landlord -
Russell Vaclaw
Justice of the Peace -
Kenneth Woodhams
Pastor -
Amy Christiansen
Mrs. Hart -
Brian Christiansen
Mr. Hart -
Emma Sophia Johnson
Carhop -
Bruce Peabody
Lawyer -
Tamar Baruch
Stepmother -
Michael Anderson
Visitor -
Darren Patnode
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What is most affecting is Malick's intent. He plainly devised the story to give him a series of panels for the expression of feeling.
Top CriticThe movie plays like an undercooked pie that hasn't had enough time to cool and settle.
Essentially it's an agglomeration of Malick's worst stylistic annoyances.
A thing of great beauty, but not much more.
We should not be exiting a Terrence Malick movie with a shrug, but there it is.
Chary of exposition, meagre of plot, derisory of dialogue, indifferent to comprehension, it's a project that veers perilously close to self-parody.
To The Wonder - the best American feature by far of 2013: beautiful, compassionate, tragic, transcendent.
Mesmo que apresente-se irregular, é suficientemente sensível e revelador para fazer jus à filmografia do diretor.
In its conventionally alienating extremes, this is probably Malick's most pure expression of his uniquely impressionistic, almost extra-sensory cinematic gifts, transporting one to a meditative wavelength of emotional experience.
At times the film actually feels like a parody of an arthouse movie rather than a work produced by a director often unjustly described as a cinematic genius.
With its florid narration, non-linear structure, and endless shots of a woman in flowing skirts twirling in fields, on beaches, and in supermarket aisles, it's dangerously close to being a parody of a Malick movie.
"To the Wonder" is an imperfect film that perhaps reaches too high and too far, but I admire the effort, and am grateful for those moments when Malick does connect, and the film suddenly becomes glorious.
To the Wonder feels like a caricature coveting Malick's previously towering pieces of visual art. However there's more refined, contemplative poetry in this relative misstep than in a hundred Hollywood studio films.
Terrence Malick's vague, sweeping ode to love lost and found is anything but wondrous.
With its pale colour palette, the film looks like whimsy, but without the humour. The characters move slowly, as if slowed by the weight of their thoughts and emotions. It's as if Malik is showing us what it would be like to be a ghostly observer
There is some glorious imagery in Terrence Malik's elusive and poetic film about love, but this internal observation is far too obtuse and self-indulgent to satisfy even the most romantic
If you give yourself up to it, you'll be carried along-not knowing where you're going, and never really minding much either.
Its ambitions might be slight, but its impact is more than slightly powerful.
Dialogue is reduced to impressionistic snatches and self-consciously poetic voice-over; the impressive cast have nothing much to do but exchange meaningful looks through windblown hair.
To the Wonder is built from shattered hearts, broken relationships and unanswered prayers, all better long since forgotten rather than pondered on film, yet again...
Terrence Malick is to light as Orson Welles was to shadow: the master.
Indisputably comes off as a minor work on the heels of Malick's The Tree of Life but still holds enough of interest for the initiated.
Malick succeeds in creating his a separate reality, one drenched with longing and fear.
Audience Reviews for To The Wonder
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- Marina: I write on water what I dare not say.
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- Father Quintana: You shall love, whether you like it or not.
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