Watch: To the Wonder 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – Neil (Ben Affleck) is an American traveling in Europe who meets and falls in love with Marina (Olga Kurylenko), a Ukrainian divorcée who is raising her 10-year-old daughter Tatiana in Paris. The lovers travel to Mont St. Michel, the island abbey off the coast of Normandy, basking in the wonder of their newfound romance. Neil makes a commitment to Marina, inviting her to relocate to his native Oklahoma with Tatiana. He takes a job as an environmental inspector and Marina settles into her new life in America with passion and vigor. After a holding pattern, their relationship cools. Marina finds solace in the company of another exile, the Catholic priest Father Quintana (Javier Bardem), who is undergoing a crisis of faith. Work pressures and increasing doubt pull Neil further apart from Marina, who returns to France with Tatiana when her visa expires. Neil reconnects with Jane (Rachel McAdams), an old flame. They fall in love until Neil learns that Marina has fallen on hard times. Gripped by a sense of responsibility – and his own crisis of faith – he rekindles with Marina after another trip to France. She returns with him to Oklahoma, resuming her American life. But the old sorrows eventually return..
Plot: After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church’s Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.
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Write on Water
Greetings again from the darkness. Director Terrence Malick makes films that typically fall into the “love it or hate it” genre. He has a very loyal group of fans (of which I am one) who appreciate the unique mental and emotional ride that his projects provide. To say that his films are not accessible is understandable. His objective is to challenge you to access your own beliefs and thoughts, rather than the characters in his movies … they are simply the tools he uses.Less than two years ago, I was struggling to put thoughts into words after watching Malick’s The Tree of Life. Now, in record time for him, he releases another film that is even more impressionistic … actually abstract is not too strong a description. The usual Malick elements are present – nature, uncomfortable relationships, minimal dialogue, breathtaking photography, and powerful music. Where The Tree of Life focused on Creation and Family, this latest takes on Love and Faith.
Water imagery is a frequent key as we see the personal relationship mimic the changing of the seasons. Neil (Ben Affleck), an American visiting Paris, meets and falls for Marina (Olga Kurylenko), a free-spirited local filled with light and energy. Their love affair moves to the stunning Mont Saint-Michel before settling in the drab plains of Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
It’s not surprising that the relationship suffers as the newness wears thin. The interesting part is how Malick presents it. We mostly witness bits and pieces … he shows us moments, not events. We easily see that Neil’s aloofness and sullen looks don’t jibe with Marina’s effervescence. When she returns to Paris, Neil easily falls in with an old flame played by Rachel McAdams. When she later accuses him of making what they had “nothing”, we all understand what she means … and why.
While Neil is proving what a lost soul he is, we also meet Father Quintana (Javier Bardem). He has lost the light of his faith and is in full crisis mode, even as he attempts to console and guide Marina. There is no secret that much of this film is autobiographical and that Malick is working through wounds he still carries these many years later. As a movie-goer, there is little to be gained from Alleck’s disconnected character or from Kurylenko dancing in the rain. The real prize is awakening the thoughts and feelings many of us probably buried over the years to hide emotional pain. Malick seems to be saying that it’s OK to acknowledge your foundation, regardless of your ability to succeed in a socially acceptable manner.
If you prefer not to dig so deep emotionally, this is a beautiful film to look at – thanks to Director of Photograpy Emmanuel Lubezki (a frequent Malick collaborator), and listen to – a blended soundtrack with many notable pieces from various composers. While this will be remembered as Roger Ebert’s final movie review (he liked it very much), it will likely have very little appeal to the average movie watcher – and I’m confident that Terrence Malick is fine with that.
Whispers and pretty images DO NOT make a movie!!!
This is a great movie ….. FOR SELLING TVS!!! I cannot find any other good use for this excuse of a movie.I’m not kidding, in a point of the film, they run out of landscapes footages and they throw some TURTLES at us! SERIOUSLY?!?! I mean, what does the poor turtle has to do with anything? I just hope the turtle’s payment was at least as big as Ben’s, because they get about the same number of lines. Or should I say whispers.
That’s another thing in this movie that is incredibly annoying: there are no dialogues! Only some random whisperings.
The Tree of Life was bad, but To the Wonder takes it to a whole new level of badness!
Summary: “I love you.” (silence) “Let’s get married.” (more silence) “I need a visa.” (Guess what? More silence) Then she leaves. There is also a random priest going through some middle age crisis.
And they make it goes for 2 hours by adding a bunch of Nat Geo footages.
Just a final comment: PLEASE, IF YOU DIDN’T GET THE MOVIE, IT DOES NOT MEAN IT IS A GOOD OR A CULT MOVIE! I don’t know how anyone can give this movie a 10. It’s like “I’ve no idea what the movie was about, so it must have been good.” or “if I say I didn’t get it, people will think I dumb.”
And I don’t respect who give it a 5 by saying “the story deserves a 0, but it is so pretty that I will give it a 5”. They are saying that no matter what you throw at then, if it is mixed with some ‘LED TVs add material’, it deserves at least 5.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 52 min (112 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 587615
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Terrence Malick
Writer Terrence Malick
Actors Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem
Country United States
Awards 5 wins & 10 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital, Datasat
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses, Arriflex 235, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses, Panavision Panaflex System 65 Studio, Panavision System 65 Lenses, Red One MX, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses, Superheadz Digital Harinezumi (some shots at the beginning)
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital motion picture laboratory), EFILM Digital Laboratories, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 200T 5217, Vision2 500T 5218, Vision3 500T 5219), 65 mm (Kodak Vision2 200T 5217, Vision2 500T 5218, Vision3 500T 5219), Redcode RAW
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format), Panavision Super 70 (source format) (some scenes), Redcode RAW (4.5K) (source format) (one scene), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic), D-Cinema