Okie Film Night: To the Wonder

Okie Film Night presented by Experience Tulsa returns in May with this made-in-Oklahoma film from legendary director Terrence Malick who grew up in Bartlesville! Tickets on sale now, just $5 each.

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1h52min - Drama, Romance - Rated R - English
About the film: Originally released in 2012, Terrence Malick brought the production to his hometown of Bartlesville with an A-list cast including Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem, and Rachel McAdams. After falling in love in Paris, Marina (Kurylenko) and Neil (Affleck) come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor (Javier Bardem) struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood (Rachel McAdams).

About the director: Before he was a visionary filmmaker, Terrance Malick grew up in Bartlesville. He attended the American Film Institute Conservatory in its inaugural year (1969), taking a Masters of Fine Arts degree in film-making. His first two films were the now critically acclaimed "Badlands" (1973) and "Days of Heaven" (1978). He then took a self-imposed retirement of nearly two decades from film-making before lensing his 1998 adaptation of James Jones's "The Thin Red Line" (1998), which was nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including nods for Malick for directing and adapted screenplay. Adopting a Kubrickian pace of movie-making, he directed "The New World" (2005) and the autobiographical "The Tree of Life" (2011) with gaps of only seven and six years, respectively, between release. However, he reportedly was working on ideas for "The Tree of Life" since the late 70s, including exposing footage that found its way into his finished film. "To the Wonder", shot in the town of Bartlesville where his family lived during childhood, followed in 2012. Malick now maintains a more productive creative schedule, with six additional features to his credit including the 2019 Cannes hit "A Hidden Life".