every thing will be fine
unusual for a drama of this scale, every thing will be fine will be shot in 3d .
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wim wenders’s every thing will be fine follows writer tomas (james franco, right) after a tragic accident .
every thing will be fine premiered at the berlin film festival 2015, here’s an interview with marie - josée croze .
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charlotte gainsbourg (kate) and james franco (tomas) deal with grief and guilt in every thing will be fine .
the film
every thing will be fine
is released in germany on april 2 and on april 22 in france .
hanway is handling worldwide rights on everything will be fine and will be preselling the title in cannes next week .
marie - jose croze (ann) and james franco (tomas) in wim wenders' film every thing will be fine .
“every thing will be fine” premiered this week at the berlin international film festival. it is currently seeking u. s. distribution .
with every thing will be fine, [ wim ] wenders has proved that using 3d need not be confined to documentary filmmaking, but that it can be absolutely vital to drama .
every thing will be fine played at the camerimage international film festival and, courtesy of ifc, will begin its u. s. theatrical run on december 4 .
families can talk about the kind of violence in every thing will be fine. does violence that' s not overtly depicted still have an impact ?
every thing will be fine – 25. 04. 2015 18: 00 @ filmtheater am friedrichshain | ask helmut – best time out in berlin .
toronto — actor james franco is in montreal this week to begin work on every thing will be fine, the latest feature film by german director wim wenders .
united kingdom «every thing will be fine» in the uk has no theatrical release date. dvd and blu - ray release date is not available at this time .
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wim wenders says he wanted to film the low - key every thing will be fine in 3d because “i realized you could look into the soul” of each character .
remains one of the most sensual experiments in that format. his reasons for sticking with it in every thing will be fine, however, are not immediately apparent .
forget the explosions and effects. wim wenders uses 3d to give characters in natural settings an unforeseen presence in his new film
every thing will be fine .
london — james franco has boarded wim wenders ’ 3d pic “everything will be fine. ”
wim wenders attend the' every thing will be fine' premiere during the 65th berlinale international film festival at berlinale palace on february 10, 2015 in berlin, germany .
charlotte gainsbourg attends the' every thing will be fine' premiere during the 65th berlinale international film festival at berlinale palace on february 10, 2015 in berlin, germany .
something is off with “every thing will be fine. ” even for a movie about a writer detached from his emotions, it’s ponderous, like a lucid dream gone bad .
actor james franco attends the' every thing will be fine' premiere during the 65th berlinale international film festival at berlinale palace on february 10, 2015 in berlin, germany .
marie josee croze attends the' every thing will be fine' premiere during the 65th berlinale international film festival at berlinale palace on february 10, 2015 in berlin, germany .
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with backing from producers in no less than five countries and director of the gravitas of wim wenders - not to mention a solid cast - you' d think every thing will be fine would be more impressive than it turns out to be .
update: rachel mcadams has joined the cast of wim wenders ’ “every thing will be fine, ” the german director’s new 3 - d drama also starring james franco and charlotte gainsbourg .
wim wenders and donata wenders attend the' every thing will be fine' premiere during the 65th berlinale international film festival at berlinale palace on february 10, 2015 in berlin, germany .
london – james franco has signed to star in director wim wenders ’ 3d project everything will be fine .
every thing will be fine also stars british actress charlotte gainsbourg, who starred opposite kirsten dunst in lars von trier’s 2011 drama melancholia, and montreal’s marie - josée croze (the barbarian invasions) .
' every thing will be fine' was exactly the right type of story to experiment with this new intimate 3d storytelling, because the characters are going through so much emotionally ,
wenders explained .
[ us ] every thing will be fine (2015) after he kills a child in a car accident, a distinguished writer struggles for years to come to terms with his life and feelings of guilt .
every thing will be fine is downright strange. some of the visual choices really feel like conscious decisions to do something interesting with the format, but the strain is palpable and the subject matter is handled embarrassingly .
an audi car arrives as wim wenders and donata wenders attend the' every thing will be fine' premiere during the 65th berlinale international film festival at berlinale palace on february 10, 2015 in berlin, germany .
[ us ] every thing will be fine (2015) after he kills a child in a car accident, a distinguished writer struggles for years to come to terms with his life and feelings of guilt. : netflixbestof
berlin, germany, february 10th, 2015: film director wim wenders, james franco, charlotte gainsbourg and marie - josée croze attend at press conference of film every thing will be fine 65th berlin international film festival .
toronto – charlotte gainsbourg and marie - josee croze have jumped on board director wim wenders ’ 3d project everything will be fine .
berlin - - canadian actress sarah polley has joined the cast of wim wenders ’ new film, everything will be fine, a family drama to be shot in 3d .
the montreal shoot will be followed by a break, and resume in winter 2014 .
every thing will be fine
was filmed in 3d. in a discussion before the premiere at the berlinale, wenders pointed out that directors mostly use 3d for effects and tricks in hollywood films, neglecting the many other possibilities offered by the technique .
every thing will be fine screens at kino cinemas, melbourne on november 22; sydney' s palace norton street on november 24; melbourne' s westgarth palace on november 25 and palace barracks, brisbane, on november 27 as part of the german film festival .
every thing will be fine
radiates this great peace and serenity, reminding of the director' s earlier powerful images. it gives the impression that wenders now knows exactly what can be achieved with a simple plot and no longer constantly needs to remind his audience that speed and complexity embroils all stories nowadays .
early reviews for every thing will be fine were decidedly mixed, especially among american film trade publications such as variety and the hollywood reporter. wenders views their trouble with his latest work as a sign of the film biz’s extreme bias against new ways of exploring established formats .
producer gian piero ringel, actors robert naylor, james franco, director wim wenders and actress lilah fitzgerald (front) attend the' every thing will be fine' premiere during the 65th berlinale international film festival at berlinale palace on february 10, 2015 in berlin, germany .
every thing will be fine centres on a struggling writer called tomas, played by james franco, who is driving home through falling snow when he hits a sled bearing two small boys as it careers down a roadside snow bank. one boy is unhurt; the other is killed .
wenders is expected to deliver everything will be fine by the end of the year, making a premiere likely for the berlin international film festival in february .
with
every thing will be fine ,
which opens in germany' s cinemas on thursday (02. 04. 2015), wenders gave up this approach. regaining faith in the power of images, he came back to the simpler plots of his initial works of fiction .
earlier: principal photography has begun in montreal on wim wenders’ latest, “every thing will be fine, ” starring james franco, charlotte gainsbourg and marie - josee croze (“the diving bell and the butterfly”). like wenders’ sublime oscar - nominated documentary “pina, ” the film will be in 3 - d. it centers on a writer whose emotional life collapses following a traumatic car accident .
screenwriter bjorn olaf johannessen, producer gian piero ringel and actors robert naylor, marie josee croze, director wim wenders and actors charlotte gainsbourg and james franco attend the' every thing will be fine' photocall during the 65th berlinale international film festival at grand hyatt hotel on february 10, 2015 in berlin, germany .
the actors and the german director, who will be awarded the honorary golden bear for his lifetime achievement .
there’s something amiss in the opening moments of “ every thing will be fine. ” set to a mildly spooky strings - and - piano piece by alexandre desplat, the sequence suggests an old - fashioned murder mystery to such a degree that when the film’s title finally fades in, it feels like a false promise .
every little thing will be fine continues wenders’s fascination with 3d, which he began exploring in his visually stunning dance documentary pina. here, he takes the format further, defying the blueprint of hollywood blockbusters by using 3d not for a wham - bam action barrage, but for a slow - boiling, existential rumination on emotional scars that can only be healed by the passage of time .
“we can only try to believe that there’s meaning to this, ” murmurs charlotte gainsbourg midway through “every thing will be fine” — voicing viewers’ thoughts for the first and only time in wim wenders’ labored, lumbering melodrama. an inglorious return to narrative filmmaking for the german master, this protracted study in grief and forgiveness does [ … ]
ifc films has acquired u. s. rights to wim wenders’ “ everything will be fine, ” which stars james franco, charlotte gainsbourg, rachel mcadams and marie - josee croze .
united states distributed by ifc «every thing will be fine» in the united states theaters released on december 4, 2015 and has grossed over $ 9k worldwide; dvd and blu - ray release date was set for june 7, 2016. netflix dvd by mail rental date set for june 7, 2016. redbox rental date is not announced .
every thing will be fine was mostly not well received by critics. it holds a 17% rotten rating on review aggregator website rotten tomatoes, based on 18 reviews, with an average rating of 4. 3 / 10. metacritic computed a rating of 34 out of 100, based on five critics’ reviews, meaning “generally unfavorable reviews”. (wikipedia )
no matter what: every thing will be fine because everything is possible and everything is fine. we have to accept life as it is, we don’t decide. we only have to decide on how we handle a crisis. it’s about the way we handle things, we have to take them the best way we can, and then everything will be fine. what happens to tomas is horrible, and he transforms this moment into art. that inspires him and he becomes more famous with the book about that big event in his life. i think that we have to embrace life with all the difficult things we have to endure .
the storyline in
every thing will be fine
is quite simple: a writer named tomas hits and kills a child in a car accident on a winter road in canada. tomas is not to blame for the accident, yet the tragic events trigger a crisis in the life of the author. he questions himself as a human being and even as an artist .
the opening and closing sequences of
every thing will be fine ,
the first fiction feature from german director wim wenders in almost a decade, are among the most masterful he’s created, and over the course of his long career he’s created quite a few such scenes … and, more to the point, quite a few such whole films. but bear with me .
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it will also be selling the updated version of bernardo bertolucci ’s the last emperor 3d to buyers after it unspools as a cannes special .
wenders put his — or, at least, his producers’ — money where his mouth is by shooting his latest feature, every thing will be fine, mostly in oka, with a few scenes in montreal. starring james franco, charlotte gainsbourg, rachel mcadams and marie - josée croze, the 3d drama tells the story of a handful of characters coping with the after - effects of a tragedy over 14 years .
ifc films has acquired u. s. rights to wim wenders’ “everything will be fine, ” which stars james franco, charlotte gainsbourg, rachel mcadams and marie - josee croze. the 3d drama will make its north american premiere at the toronto international film festival in the masters section. ifc films will release the film on dec. 4. wenders directed from [ … ]
while it may sound like one of the platitudes that james franco ‘s character is accused of delivering at one point, the title of wim wenders ‘ new film “ every thing will be fine ” contains a clue to its approach and it’s in that space between “every” and “thing. ” this is very much a film about things —not objects, not any particular thing, but things. characters wonder how things are going. they worry things are not working out. they ask how things are with each other. they wish they could make things better. they lament the fact they want different things. and when they have no other recourse to explain events, they blame things for doing what things do: happening .
“it wasn’t me who chose the story, it chose me“, says wim wenders: ‘every thing will be fine’ came to me in an unexpected way, in the form of a screenplay in the mail, sent to me by bjørn olaf johannessen. “ the german director had met the young norwegian screenwriter during the sundance script lab where johannessen’s screenplay “nowhere man“ had received the top prize from the jury chaired by wenders. impressed by the originality of his idea, the clarity of its structure, the quality of the dialogues and the natural simplicity, he encouraged the young author to send him his next screenplay. in fact, johannessen did this three years later, and wenders liked this first draft of “every thing will be fine“ so much that together with his producer gian - piero ringel they decided to option the script and to start its development already during the postproduction on “pina“ .
since the script was written by the norwegian bjorn olaf johannessen, one suspects the answer is that it’s actually norway, but the film, a five - way co - pro shot in quebec and norway, brings out the cultural nationalist in me. i don’t think canada is a better place than anywhere else, i just think it is a place. every thing will be fine is located in some 3 - d la - la land .
“and i cast rachel mcadams because of that incredibly positive energy that she exudes in every role. ”
london — james franco has boarded wim wenders’ 3d pic “everything will be fine. ” franco will play tomas, a writer who accidentally causes the death of a child and spends the next 12 years examining the effect of the tragedy on his life and that of kate, the child’s mother. wenders said the film was [ … ]
the film will be released in germany and canada in 2014, via warner bros. and mongrel media, respectively; no word yet on a stateside release .
the 3d drama will make its north american premiere at the toronto international film festival in the masters section. ifc films will release the film on dec. 4 .
so perhaps every thing will be fine is supposed to be the director’s back - to - basics movie, putting him in the mode of the ’50s hollywood dramas (see: alexandre desplat’s throwback score) that haunted his early german films like dreams—and maybe wenders has just depleted whatever basics he could go back to. there are exactly two interesting things about every thing will be fine. the first is the use of 3 - d as a stand - in for the rapturous use of color in classic melodramas; it works for the first 10 or so minutes, which are set in the dead of winter. then the viewer realizes that all of the ideas wenders has cooked up for 3 - d involve falling snow, and that the rest of the movie is set in the spring, summer, and fall seasons of an 11 - year period, and mostly consists of awkwardly staged conversations with a 2 - to - 1 ratio of heavy pauses to actual dialogue, occasionally spruced up with a reflection or a barely motivated vertigo - style dolly - zoom .
this would be an easy film to mock. johannessen’s script is often leaden while wenders’s style is unfashionably unflashy, the pace only just this side of ponderous. but the picture has sincerity on its side, as well as the nagging eeriness of a score (by alexandre desplat) that verges on the herrmann - esque. and while it’s tasteful, even unadventurous, every thing will be fine isn’t too timid to address the restorative effect of trauma on creativity. “your books from before the accident weren’t as good, ” someone tells tomas in one of several authentic “ouch” moments .
tomas eldan, the canadian novelist played by james franco in wim wenders’ lame 3 - d melodrama every thing will be fine, always looks like he’s ready to zonk out for a nap. as a matter of fact, he’s introduced waking up from one, in an ice shack that doubles as his writing room, and he moves through every subsequent scene as though he were searching for a light switch on the way to the bathroom. is it too perfect that when the movie finally perks up, which is in its last 20 or so minutes, it’s in a scene where tomas drinks a cup of coffee? or that its muffled climax has him discovering that an intruder has pissed all over his bed? every thing will be fine, ostensibly about a writer who realizes his dreams on the back of someone else’s nightmare, resembles nothing more than the story of one man’s decade - long quest to get some quality zzzz s. it probably couldn’t ask for a more fitting star than franco, who has eyes like the headlamps of a beat - up old corvette stingray, stuck halfway between open and closed .
this is all pitched in a very earnest key, but it’s not necessarily rooted in reality — or so i like to think. if the case should be otherwise, every thing will be fine is as lugubrious as that space separating the first two words of its title. as one who feels little excuse to defend wenders, however — e. g. his sincere, meant - to - be - awe - inspiring until the end of the world is far and away the best “comedy” i’ve seen in theaters this year — i say with no small amount of confidence that this, however clunky, is (mostly) meant to be taken much in the same way we should process douglas sirk or nicholas ray. change the muted blues and greys to bright reds and yellows, and the continuation of a tradition might be clearer .
it’s possible that “every thing will be fine” is understated to a fault, that excavating its deeper meanings is deliberately impeded rather than enabled by its gently casual vibe. a laughably wooden leading turn from franco isn’t anything to voice disappointment in these days, but the extent to which his monotonous laziness infects the rest of the picture suggests catastrophically low expectations on his director’s part. indeed, while the measure of a filmmaker can often be the performances she elicits from younger cast members, it has to be said here that those by robert naylor as 17 - year - old christopher and lilah fitzgerald as ann’s daughter mina are shockingly flat — was it that uninspiring to perform opposite franco ?
after he completed pina, his much lauded 3 - d documentary about choreographer pina bausch, german director wim wenders became a vocal defender of the technology, arguing it could revolutionize an intimate drama as much as it had a dance film. and so, we are treated to the bizarre international co - production every thing will be fine, a small but taut drama in which the beautiful physical details jumping off the screen only serve to emphasize an ill - defined setting and major insufficiencies in the script and performances .
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every thing will be fine, based on an original script by the norwegian bjørn olaf johannessen, tells the story of tomas (james franco), a writer who loses control of his life after a car accident. even though he is not directly at fault, his relationship with his girlfriend breaks down because of this event and his life and work suddenly set off in a completely new direction. the film follows tomas over a period of 12 years and tells an intimate story of guilt and the search for forgiveness .
“every thing will be fine” is far from a perfect film. but wenders is trying to do new things within the confines of a pretty standard european art - film scenario, and the viewer can see he’s not approaching the material as though it’s rote; he’s really trying to use the camera to get through the feelings of loss the characters suffer. wenders is also the author of a book of essays called “emotion pictures, ” and he once again brings some honor to that concept with this flawed but intriguing work .
“we can only try to believe that there’s meaning to this, ” murmurs charlotte gainsbourg midway through “every thing will be fine” — voicing viewers’ thoughts for the first and only time in wim wenders ’ labored, lumbering melodrama. an inglorious return to narrative filmmaking for the german master, this protracted study in grief and forgiveness does little to suggest his time hasn’t been better spent making documentaries for the past seven years. imprisoning james franco in the role of an emotionally constipated writer taking 10 years to process a fatal car accident, “fine” is unlikely to arouse much empathy from auds, who may instead spend most of the running time wondering why wenders chose to dramatize these dingy proceedings in advanced 3d. despite this arthouse novelty and a name cast, the conviction of the title will not be shared by distributors .
every thing will be fine is wenders' first fiction film in a decade; even if it is a failed experiment, he is at least striking out into new territory. the fact that other serious film - makers have largely avoided 3d frustrates him .
when we started to prepare this film four years ago, i was convinced it was going to be one of many by the time it came out ,
he says .
i was convinced. maybe it is the bad reputation 3d gathered, all those roller - coaster effects, so they think' oh, it' s going to ruin my story because everybody thinks this will be an effects - driven movie' .
but this, he believes, is the future. we just have to learn to work with it .
gian - piero ringel will produce through his and wenders’ neue road movies. production will begin in montreal on aug. 15. the screenplay is by norwegian writer bjorn - olaf johannessen .
as soon as he finished pina, he says, he knew he had to bring that perceptive power to fiction .
it is almost mathematical. one camera sees one thing; two cameras, it' s almost like they see two by two, that' s four. they quadruple it. i wanted those cameras to work like a magnifying glass, to use that for a story .
it took another five years, during which he made the oscar - nominated 2014 documentary the salt of the earth, until he came to berlin film festival with every thing will be fine, a drama of grief and loss made in seamless, gimmick - free 3d .
one day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. will he be able to move on ?
hanway films reps the film in international markets, and will introduce it to buyers at cannes .
gian - piero ringel will produce the 3d movie through his and wenders’ production banner neue road movies .
set in quebec, every thing will be fine starts with an accident, in which tomas’ wood - paneled jeep wagoneer strikes and kills a toddler on a snowy rural road. in the years that follow, he goes through the usual stages of burnout protagonism (including the most important one: holing up in a motel room full of empty liquor bottles), eventually emerging as the acclaimed author of this is a room and assorted other books whose titles and covers resemble the lit - fic parodies from listen up philip. finally, just as tomas has settled into a cozy life with a family of his own in, yes, a glass house, the now - teenage brother of the boy shows up to collect what’s due, accusing him of using a tragedy in which he played a brief but pivotal role for a bookshelf’s worth of creative inspiration, pinpointing how even seemingly innocuous passages in tomas’ fiction trace back to that fateful evening. at this point, a reader might think that all of this sounds like a decent set - up for, say, an arthouse suspense flick about bourgeois mores, à la michael haneke. it is, but every thing will be fine isn’t that film .
every thing will be fine is the story of the author tomas eldan. one day a car accident transforms his life. even though he is not directly to blame for this tragedy, it still causes his relationship with his girlfriend to break apart. tomas falls into a deep hole. he seeks retreat in his writing and tries to start his own family with a new love. the film looks at tomas’ attempt to give his life meaning again and recounts his search for forgiveness. it is not time alone that heals wounds but the courage to face up to things and to forgive. especially oneself .
wenders is keeping details of everything will be fine under wraps, but the plot - - from a script by norwegian screenwriter bjørn olaf johannessen - - is believed to focus on a german magician who disappears in the wilds of rural norway. gian - piero ringel, who produced wenders’ 3d dance documentary pina, is also on board .
in the 3d film, the actor will play a writer who accidentally causes the death of a child .
“every thing will be fine” unfolds by means of an elliptical timeframe; frequent fades conclude scenes at incongruous junctures; dialogue exchanges seem designed primarily to retain an opaque air rather than further character. on a better day this might have recalled atom egoyan at his peak — the wintry setting and the latent traumas sparked by an extraordinary incident certainly bring “the sweet hereafter” to mind. but the creative choices of wenders and co. have resulted here in a work that sadly invites derision. guffaws rang out at several points in the first press screening at the berlin international film festival, which also concluded with a damningly tokenistic applause .
directed by wim wenders, with james franco, marie - josée croze, rachel mcadams and charlotte gainsbourg. every thing will be fine, based on an original script by the norwegian bjørn olaf johannessen, tells the story of tomas (james franco), a writer who loses control of his life after a car accident. even though he is not directly at fault, his relationship with his girlfriend breaks down because of this event and his life and work suddenly set off in a completely new direction. the film follows tomas over a period of 12 years and tells an intimate story of guilt and the search for forgiveness .
coming from many other veteran auteurs, a film as tone - deaf and structurally haphazard as “every thing will be fine” — no explanation is given, incidentally, for the title’s irksome spacing — would sound an alarming career alert. coming from wenders, freshly oscar - nominated for his gleaming, gorgeous sebastiao salgado tribute “the salt of the earth, ” this unfortunate diversion merely suggests that the creative instincts and impulses that once yielded the marvelous likes of “paris, texas” and “wings of desire” have shifted permanently to the realm of nonfiction; after all, 2008’s oddly conceived meta - thriller “palermo shooting” likewise found him firing on precious few cylinders .
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him. riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you. …
“i am convinced that the medium of 3d will be able to open up an entirely new dimension of emotional closeness to our story and its protagonists, ” said wenders, who made the acclaimed 2011 documentary pina in 3d .
region: region 2 (this dvd may not be viewable outside europe. read more about dvd formats. )
netherlands released, pal / region 2 dvd: languages: english (dolby digital 5. 1), french (dolby digital 5. 1), dutch (subtitles), french (subtitles), widescreen (1. 78: 1), special features: interactive menu, scene access, synopsis: while driving aimlessly after a quarrel with his girlfriend, a writer accidentally runs over and kills a child. the accident and its aftermath deeply traumatizes him. over the next 12 years, he struggles to make sense of what happened and continue on with life, but when he looks in the mirror, he sees a murderer... . every thing will be fine
in theory, i agree with you. and in practice, “every thing will be fine” wears a certain preciosity on its sleeve, starting with the title, with its deliberately broken “everything, ” oy. one might suspect the new sincerity in action, except that wenders has always been a one - hundred percent sincere filmmaker, whether creating such acute stories of existential anxiety as “ the american friend, ” luminous, mysticism - laden parables of love like “ wings of desire, ” or atrociously soft - headed meditations on being a man out of time, as in his dire 2008 “palermo shooting, ” his most recent fiction feature and not a particularly good omen for this one .
of course! tragedy is a catharsis, it’s like the big bang for me. every tragedy brings you something positive. the opposite of life is stillness, so tragedy also means life for me. human beings are always afraid of what will change and what will be different. painful moments in our lives bring us more strength and knowledge, and, sometimes, we decide to change our ways because of something that feels like a tragedy. change is life, so i’m not afraid of changing .
based on an original script by norwegian bjørn olaf johannessen, wim wenders tells the story of the author tomas (james franco) in every thing will be fine. one day a car accident transforms his life. even though he is not directly to blame for this tragedy, it still causes his relationship with his girlfriend to break apart. tomas falls into a deep hole. he seeks retreat in his writing and tries to start his own family with a new love. the film looks at tomas’ attempt to give his life meaning again and recounts his search for forgiveness. it is not time alone that heals wounds but the courage to face up to things and to forgive. especially oneself .
it is fair to say that every thing will be fine was not well received, even in wenders' home town. he says he was attracted to the script by bjorn olaf johannessen​ – it was originally set in johannessen' s native norway, but is now relocated to quebec – because he liked its narrative construction. slices of story, played out in roughly real time, are cut from a time frame spanning 14 years; it is up to the viewer to guess what has happened in between. critics and audiences found these plot omissions, oddly timed fades and opaque dialogue frustrating at best, laughable at worst. even the all - star cast was seen as collectively working below par .
tomas’ situation worsens considerably when, driving in a blinding blizzard, he runs over the young son of illustrator and single mother kate (charlotte gainsbourg), at least managing to save the boy’s older brother christopher (jack fulton). kate, a melancholic, god - fearing soul, is distraught but ultimately bears her son’s accidental killer no ill will; tomas, on the other hand, finds it harder to forgive himself, leaving sara and going into a psychological tailspin that culminates in an idle suicide attempt. thus is the stage set for a decade - spanning survey of emotional catharsis and self - confrontation, effectively dropping in on tomas every few years to check if everything (or, indeed, every thing) is fine yet .
mcadams will take the role of franco’s writer character’s girlfriend, a role which once had director - actress sarah polley attached .
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parents need to know that every thing will be fine is a relationship drama that stars well - known actors james franco and rachel mcadams but is unlikely to appeal to younger audiences. the movie not only revolves around a heavy theme - - the death of an unknown child in a car accident - - but it' s contemplative and plays out across many years in a way that most teens will likely find tedious. there' s quite a bit of substance use - - to the point of a character' s suicide attempt - - as well as some drinking by a not - quite - legal - adult. there' s also a scary moment when someone is trapped during a freak accident at a local fair. families who do see the film together may want to discuss healthy and unhealthy ways to handle grief and tragedy .
a three - hankie weepie that harks back in its melodramatic rhythms and constantly moves forward (or so it at least thinks) with its use of digital 3d, every thing will be fine, wim wenders ‘ first narrative feature since palermo shooting, is always flirting with being a white elephant. it would only require, say, two more bad scenes — more bizarre choices with regard to the performances, more bits of dialogue that get to the heart of a character’s grief with the grace of a drunk lumberjack, or at least fewer pretty images — to teeter into chaos. and this is what ultimately makes the picture most worthwhile: even those moments that raise the eyebrows sky - high still have a weird integrity and determination skating under the surface .
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production began mid - august in montreal and wrapped mid - september but they will return in january / february to shoot the winter scenes .
wim wenders' fascination with 3d cinematography began with his acclaimed documentary pina about dancer pina bausch, and continued in the multiple - director omnibus cathedrals of culture last year. perhaps no one outside of james cameron has intuited the potential of 3d as well as the german director, and it was high time to try out these technical advances in a piece of dramatic fiction. but unfortunately, the awkwardly titled every thing will be fine seems more like a showcase for expressive camerawork pushing the limits of cinematography than anything else. actors the caliber of james franco and charlotte gainsbourg get the short end of the stick in this angst - ridden drama about a writer who is tormented by the accidental death of a child. there is dramatic tension here, but all things considered, this ranks as a puzzling failure .
in the past decade, the director of the
buena vista social club
rather focused on making documentary films, the most recent one being
the salt of the earth .
now wim wenders is back with a new fiction film, and his fans will be delighted .
perhaps the most incongruous scene of all, though, is that in which tomas walks mina home from school one day, along a rural river path. their conversation revolves around a word tomas had brought to mina’s attention at an earlier point that is overused and literally meaningless in everyday conversation. on first inspection that word seems to be “like, ” for mina seems to make a point of, like, saying it as often as she, like, can. but upon reflection, the word could also be “fine” — the go - to adjective that encompasses all our emotional states, whether fraught, joyous or even bereft. indeed, a fine film !
“i chose the actors for being able to play their parts in an utterly minimalistic way, ” he said. “i knew the 3d cameras would see every little exaggeration, and that they would see more than any camera ever before. so these actors had to become these people. they weren’t allowed to play them — they had to be them .
poetic feature films like
wings of desire
and
paris, texas
are on every film student' s must - see list and established wim wenders as one of the greats of cinema .
wim wenders loves montreal. if our city had its own equivalent of the i (heart) ny t - shirt, he would be rocking it .
that notion might make you gag, and could have very well soured the project much further if every thing will be fine wasn’t so consistency a pleasure to observe. it would stand as a well - measured work of directing in two dimensions — the recurring assemblage of shots and cuts to build tension, dread, and portent, and the ability to separate those close - but - distinct feelings, is terrific in and of itself — but the union of wenders, cinematographer benoît debe, and stereographer joséphine derobe produces images that range from accomplished (speaking for the most essential aspects of image - making) to outright beautiful. the 3d is impressive as a showcase, more so as a supplement to drama: the way it brings so many of the close - ups into an almost - direct contact; the emphasizing of an actor’s numerous facial tics; the enhancement of atmosphere in correlation to the clear - as - day emotions dictating the drama .
wenders has a history of employing exceptional cinematographers (such as robby müller), and here gets fine work from benoit debie, whose glowing landscapes and interiors contribute at least as much as the script .
desplat who recently received his seventh and eighth academy award nomination for his music for the grand budapest hotel and the imitation game also has scored the drama suffragette starring carey mulligan & meryl streep, which will be released later this year. the composer’s upcoming projects also include matteo garrone’s the tale of tales and roman polanski’s d .
for one, it takes almost the entire movie to introduce a lone demitasse of dramatic tension (i. e. , the set - up described in the above paragraph), and then, it more or less spits it out on the floor. every thing will be fine is a critic’s worst nightmare, which is to say that it’s really goddamn boring—the kind of boring that is tough to write about, and which inevitably threatens to bring out everyone’s inner hack, cycling through synonyms to keep the prose lively (“dull, ” “tedious, ” “stultifying, ” etc .), all the while fighting the urge to just start nitpicking things that might be endearing in a better film. (sure, no two members of the cast here have the same accent, but neither does anyone in the scarlet empress .) why? wenders (paris, texas; wings of desire) used to be one of the hippest and most cosmopolitan filmmakers around, a director of road trips and existential metaphors that twirled out into long passages of poetic observation. but somewhere around the 1990s, his fiction films started to get soft and fat, distended by cameos and travel - guide backdrops—the kind of stuff that had spun his best films, but now lacked a motor of ambition .
the admirable craziness — the sort that doesn’t announce itself or use that quality to pervert every individual moment — doesn’t necessarily subside, and thus neither does my affection. wenders and co. have created something at once unidentifiable and part of a long cinematic tradition, which speaks to me as a sign that it, no matter the initially poor reception, will have time to grow .
every thing will be fine follows tomas (james franco), an aspiring writer whose life is irrevocably changed one winter day after he accidentally strikes two young brothers who are sledding, and only one of the boys survives. tomas, who was out driving that day after a disagreement with his then - girlfriend, sara (rachel mcadams), breaks things off with her. eventually, he writes a best - seller and enters a serious relationship with grounded single mother ann (marie - josee croze), a literary editor at tomas' publishing house - - but he never forgets the accident and even checks in on the grieving mother (charlotte gainsbourg) who lost her son under his car. more than a decade after the accident, the surviving son, christopher (robert naylor), now a mature teen, begins to stalk tomas in hopes of connecting with the man who showed him such compassion, even while being responsible for his brother' s death .
tragedy is random and unavoidable, and overcoming it can be slow, painful, and all - consuming. positive message about how creativity can flourish after grief .
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jeremy thomas' u. k. - based sales and finance banner hanway films will handle international sales and tout wenders' vision to buyers at the upcoming marche du film .
franco bears all this with sleepy good grace and doesn’t overdo the brooding, despite playing a man who has never met a window out of which he didn’t want to stare pensively. gainsbourg isn’t given much to do; most of it is so over - familiar that there seems every danger she will react to the loss of her child by decamping to a woodland cabin to perform a self - clitoridectomy à la antichrist .
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the actress and director both love the genre, but as they told indiewire, they also knew it needed to be retrofitted to tell the true story of catherine weldon and sitting bull .
this is an intimate drama where the action takes place in living rooms, offices, cafes and cars. when there is an explosive incident, it tends to be shunted off - screen. the closest that the use of 3d comes to the spectacular is the shot of a kitchen curtain fluttering in the foreground, revealing autumnal fields stretching into the distance as far as the earth will allow .
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every thing will be fine is a 2015 german drama film directed by wim wenders , written by bjørn olaf johannessen and produced in 3d . it is wenders ’ first full-length dramatic feature in seven years . the film stars james franco , charlotte gainsbourg , rachel mcadams and marie-josée croze . it premiered out of competition on february 10 , 2015 at the 65th berlin international film festival . the film made its north american premiere at the toronto international film festival on september 11 , 2015 . it was released in the united states in a limited release and through video on demand on december 4 , 2015 by ifc films
every thing will be fine is a 2015 german drama film directed by wim wenders, written by bjørn olaf johannessen and produced in 3d. it is wenders ’ first full-length dramatic feature in seven years. the film stars james franco, charlotte gainsbourg, rachel mcadams and marie-josée croze. it premiered out of competition on february 10, 2015 at the 65th berlin international film festival. the film made its north american premiere at the toronto international film festival on september 11, 2015. it was released in the united states in a limited release and through video on demand on december 4, 2015 by ifc films
every thing will be fine is a 2015 german drama film directed by wim wenders, written by bjørn olaf johannessen and produced in 3d. it is wenders ’ first full-length dramatic feature in seven years. the film stars james franco, charlotte gainsbourg, rachel mcadams and marie-josée croze. it premiered out of competition on february 10, 2015 at the 65th berlin international film festival. the film made its north american premiere at the toronto international film festival on september 11, 2015. it was released in the united states in a limited release and through video on demand on december 4, 2015 by ifc films