To the Wonder (2012) on Netflix
In Paris Neil falls for Marina, who raises her daughter Tatiana. He brings them to Oklahoma. The romance cools, and Marina turns to Father Quintana, a priest in crisis of faith.
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Plot summary
Neil, an American who travels in Europe, meets Marina in Paris, where she lives with her ten-year-old daughter Tatiana. The two fall in love and travel to Mont St. Michel in Normandy. Neil asks Marina to bring Tatiana and settle with him in Oklahoma, his home state, and he becomes an environmental inspector there. Marina settles into her new life. Over time, however, the couple's passion cools, and Marina finds comfort with Father Quintana, a Catholic priest who is himself in a crisis of faith. Tatiana has not made friends at school and misses home; she tells Neil he is not her father.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about To the Wonder (2012)
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- Jessica Chastain, Rachel Weisz, Amanda Peet, Barry Pepper and Michael Sheen all worked on the film, but Terrence Malick cut every one of their performances, keeping no footage of them for the final cut.
- When the film was announced in February 2010 it was set to co-star Christian Bale, but Bale dropped out of the production and Ben Affleck replaced him; Rachel McAdams also joined the cast.
- To the Wonder was the final film Roger Ebert reviewed; he died on April 4, 2013, and the review was published two days later.
- The film's conception and plot are autobiographical: Terrence Malick met his second wife in Paris in the early 1980s, and the couple lived in Oklahoma for a period before they separated.
- Malick's shoot used no screenplay and no lights; actors were told to keep moving, and Olga Kurylenko said it felt more like a dance performance than acting, if she stopped, Malick poked her to keep going.
- Malick handed his editing team works of literature for inspiration, including Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, and the phrase "radiant zigzag becoming" became their unofficial post-production motto.
