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Neil (Ben Affleck) is an American traveling in Europe who meets and falls in love with Marina (Olga Kurylenko), an Ukrainian divorcee 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.
Written and directed by Terrence Malick, TO THE WONDER is a romantic drama about men and women grappling with love and its many phases and seasons — passion, sympathy, obligation, sorrow and indecision — and the way these forces merge together and drift apart, transforming, destroying and reinventing the lives they touch.
Working once again with the cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (THE NEW WORLD, THE TREE OF LIFE), and a team of gifted collaborators, Terrence Malick has concocted a deeply moving visual language intermingling love, nature and spirit — “all things work together for the good,” as one character in TO THE WONDER proclaims — that ranks among his most personal and heartfelt works.
 
Written and Directed by TERRENCE MALICK
Produced by SARAH GREEN
NICOLAS GONDA
Executive Producers GLEN BASNER
JASON KRIGSFELD
JOSEPH KRIGSFELD
Director of Photography EMMANUEL LUBEZKI, ASC, AMC
Production Designer JACK FISK
Edited by A.J EDWARDS
KEITH FRAASE
SHANE HAZEN
CHRISTOPHER ROLDAN
MARK YOSHIKAWA
Costume Designer JACQUELINE WEST
Music Composed by HANAN TOWNSEND
Sonics and Variations by DANIEL LANOIS
Unit Production Managers HANS GRAFFUNDER
SARAH GREEN
First Assistant Director SEBASTIÁN SILVA
Key Second Assistant Director GISELLE GURZA JUNCO
Co-Producers HANS GRAFFUNDER
SANDHYA SHARDANAND
Associate Producers CHARLEY BEIL
MORGAN POLLITT
Camera Operator/Steadicam JOERG WIDMER
First Assistant Camera ERIK L. BROWN
Supervising Sound Editor CRAIG BERKEY
Music Supervisor LAUREN MARIE MIKUS
Consultant JOHN McNEES
Artistic Collaborator TYLER SAVAGE
Casting CHRIS FREIHOFER
European Casting ROBIN HUDSON
Neil BEN AFFLECK
Marina OLGA KURYLENKO
Jane RACHEL MCADAMS
Father Quintana JAVIER BARDEM
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"*** 1/2! Malick, who is surely one of the most romantic and spiritual of filmmakers, appears almost naked here before his audience, a man not able to conceal the depth of his vision. Malick depicts relationships with deliberate beauty and painterly care." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"To the Wonder spins visual poetry not only out of prairies and creek beds but also out of less obviously sublime facts of the landscape. A trip north to Mont Saint-Michel is like a visit to heaven itself." - A.O. Scott, The New York Times
"A CINEMATIC MIRACLE THAT DESERVES TO ENDURE AS AN ARTISTIC LANDMARK. As original and distinctive as it is profound and heartfelt." - Richard Brody, The New Yorker
"THE CLASSIC ROMANTIC TRIANGLE MAY NEVER HAVE BEEN SO ETHEREAL. Malick's balletic camera turns the glowing light of the American landscape into a spiritual bounty." - Richard Brody, New Yorker
**** An absorbing, thoughtful, moving meditation on the things that matter." - Empire RAPTUROUS. For those on Malick's rarefied wavelength, IT'S A WONDER." - Richard Corliss, Time
"**** IT FEELS LIKE A GIFT." - Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
"A BEAUTIFUL AND REWARDING FILM." - Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times
"YOU WILL SELDOM SEE A MORE MAJESTICALLY SHOT MOVIE. The sheer inventiveness and variety of the contrasting images keeps you riveted." - Jake Coyle, AP
"3½ out of 4 stars. BOLD, SINCERE, LYRICAL, TRANSCENDENT. Malick reaches for pure cinema here." Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"4½ out of 5 stars. A REMARKABLE WORK OF ART. It delivers the viewer to an intimation of grace that's as powerful a thing as art has to offer." - Glenn Kenny, MSN
"ECSTATICALLY BEAUTIFUL. Malick is reaching for essential truths-attempting to give expression to the ineffable and show us something beautiful, reminding us that we live in a world that's larger than ourselves." Scott Tobias, The Onion A.V. Club
“RAPTUROUS, FORBIDDING, WONDROUS. For those on Malick’s rarified wavelength, it’s a wonder.” – Richard Corliss, Time Magazine
“A brave, soul-stirring and sensitive work.” – James Mottram, Total Film
“4 STARS - 100 per cent pure, unadulterated Malick, an absorbing, thoughtful, moving meditation on the things that matter.” – Ian Freer, Empire
“THIS IS CINEMA SENT FROM THE HEAVENS. A sensual marvel. It locates tumbling cosmic depths in the most mundane of moments.” – David Jenkins, Little White Lies
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