As is usually the case with Terrence Malick movies, a lot of material from his 2012 drama To the Wonder ended up on the cutting room floor, much of which revolved around Javier Bardem’s character, a conflicted Catholic priest.
During production, Malick invited photojournalist Eugene Richards to shoot a selection of scenes where Bardem’s priest interviews actual residents of the town of Bartlesville, Oklahoma about their lives – including an elderly woman talking about her happy marriage, a former Ku Klux Klan member who renounces his past, and a mother who recalls the drowning of their child.
Well, it seems the footage is not going to waste, as Richards has secured permission from Malick to assemble the footage into a 43-minute short entitled Thy Kingdom Come, which will be premiering at SXSW this March. Check out a trailer for the project here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTmYWk7kerU
Via IndieWire
