To the Wonder
The life of a young handsome man named Neil, who falls in love with a divorced woman raises her young daughter and accompany them to Paris, where they face many obstacles and struggles with meeting his old girlfriend, has been changed completely, as he does his best to balance between his two lovers.
8 April 1955, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
27 February 1971, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
29 October 1959, Laren, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
1 March 1969, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
14 November 1979, Berdyansk, Zaporozhye Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine]
28 September 1942, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
August 11, 2014
To the Wonder shouldn't be passed off as "self-parody," but as Malick's self-destructed misfire.
April 09, 2014
Jane and Neil find themselves brushing against each other in a large field right up next to a herd of brown bison amid rustling grasses, as if grass were ever still when a camera, Malick's camera, is directed its way.
May 16, 2016
Moving and thought provoking.
May 03, 2013
The movie plays like an undercooked pie that hasn't had enough time to cool and settle.
June 21, 2016
In its own way, it's an involving picture, but Malick's form is too frequently working against his content.
April 26, 2013
Essentially it's an agglomeration of Malick's worst stylistic annoyances.
March 03, 2014
Love is a many-splendored thing, except when it isn't in To the Wonder, a wispy romantic movie about the death of a romance.
July 15, 2015
Your response to all this depends extremely heavily on how much philosophizing and pretty pictures you're willing to accept in lieu of a story.
June 13, 2013
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.
April 25, 2013
A thing of great beauty, but not much more.
April 16, 2014
Malick is employing his usual style of montage and voice-over narration but in a new, contemporary setting that makes Wonder feel like his most vital work in years.
