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TO THE WONDER (review)

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Review by Caitlyn Thompson
Produced by Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green 
Written and Directed by Terrence Malick 
Starring Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, 
Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem

Magnolia Pictures / Studio Canal / Rated R

You have to understand that you can’t review this movie with the same rubric you would an action movie or RomCom. 

It’s not a production that can be easily labeled. The category most fitting would be visual poetry.  

To the Wonder is an amalgam of moments, of feelings, of streams of consciousness. Dialogue is scarce if nonexistent. 

The tone remains consistent guided along with a beautiful and emotionally charged score. 

The film gives us glimpses of love, the joy of feeling completely ravished, infatuated, romantic, and supported, while also consumed, confused, tortured, controlled, and lost within it. 

Like I said, a poem of emotions.

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