To The Wonder
Dir: Terrence Malick
2012
*
The Tree of Life was dreamlike, To the Wonder is just sleep-inducing. Is legendary director Terrance Malick going for existential? Is the film supposed to be melancholic? If so he really should watch more French films and have a word with Lars von Trier because he needs to up his game. Is the cinematography a ghostly vision of reality? A dreamlike representation of the human soul perhaps? Or is it just more swoopy wobbly camera action because Mr Malick can't do anything else. The story is a shambles. It's easy, lazy even. The illusion of depth. To the Wonder by Calvin Klein.