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While filming Terrence Malick's upcoming To the Wonder, Olga Kurylenko traveled from the golden wheat fields of Oklahoma to the quicksand tidal flats of Mon Saint-Michel in France. Here, the actor shares her personal thoughts about collaborating with the iconic director and what it felt like to inhabit her character, Marina.

Let me begin by saying that whoever is cutting these To the Wonder trailers deserves an entire award ceremony of his/her own. And although it seems I have already spoken ad nauseum about Terrence Malick's latest philosophical/emotional masterpiece with word of new trailers, stills, featurettes, etc., I almost forgot that a proper US theatrical trailer had yet to be released. And yesterday, Entertainment Tonight (of all places) debuted the beautiful new preview that has taken my heart and placed it on my lap so that it can absorb my endless tears. Featuring Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, and Javier Bardem, this new trailer allows us to see more stunning moments from his graceful poem of images. And in addition, perhaps the first lovely shot of a Sonic Drive-In featured in a Malick movie, right?

Between the cracks of Terrence Malick's silences live hundreds of emotions just rising to the surface. His quiet moments, more powerful than most words could ever articulate. And when we look back on pain or love, memories flash and dissolve in one's mind in fractions, remembering with a photographic sense, not what he said in the arguement but the way your stomach filled with fire, not the screaming but the way his teeth looked when he did so. And Malick captures that heightened beauty of memory, even in the most exhausted moments.

In a recent review for Little White Lies, David Jenkins said that Terrence Malick "doesn’t make films anymore, he builds cathedrals.” And as a sublime and beautiful companion piece to The Tree of Life, his latest emotional epic To the Wonder tackles the same questions of existence as his last film, but this time through the eyes of love and the confounding complexities within ourselves that hold us captive and barricade us from connection to our own spirit and that of others. Yesterday, we showed you a new French TV spot for the film with a first behind-the-scenes featurette the day prior. But now, all three exclusive clips have made themselves visible online and it’s your choice to choose whether or not you'd like to dive into the making of the film.

Terrence Malick fans in the UK will surely be rejoicing when his latest poem of images and emotion, To the Wonder, hits theaters this week. And although we will have to wait until April to see the film in the States, there's a little something new to spike up your already anxious anticipation for the film. After a myraid stills, posters, and trailers have already been released, now there's a Behind the Scenes featurette for the film to be unveiled in three parts—and today, we get the first installement from The Film Stage.

Terrence Malick's films aren't much different from Chris Marker's un photo-roman. The poetic wisdom and ineffable beauty are presented in images and snapshots of moments that speak volumes above dialogue. And what remains are the feelings provoked by the way the camera slying weaves through the emotional trails of his characters with grace. And in for his latest, To the Wonder, we've already been given a sizable amount of images thus far, setting the tone for what audiences can expect in the story of love's natural ebb and flow—from manic passion to the emptiness of sorrow. 

Terrence Malick's sprawling poem of images To the Wonder lives inside his magic hour moments of pain and splendor. Mainly, the stills we've seen from the film thus far have been of Ben Affleck and Olga Kuryleko—the tortured lovers whose relationship flows in and out of love and lust. But now, there's a new batch of images for you to begin salivating over, featuring Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem.

What’s best about Terrence Malick’s work is how so much of it exists in memory. Time flows with the spirituality of a dream and the scenes presented swim in and out of consciousness like the recollection of a feeling or image existing in an ineffable realm beyond words. And with the follow up to his examination of creation, The Tree of Life, Malick’s To The Wonder takes a poetic look at the hazards of love throughout our lifetime, equating divinity with feeling and compassion.

The trailer for Terrence Malick's latest poem of images, To the Wonder, has found its way online this morning, and until a domestic preview is released, I will be watching this or hell, just listening to it on an endless loop. Premiering back in the fall on the festival circuit, Malick's followup to the enigmatic The Tree of Life, opened to a smattering of boos and criticism—most likely audience members with residual frustration from his last. But rather than focusing on creation, To the Wonder—which stars Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, and Javier Bardem—appears to meditate on the ineffable qualities of love and love lost.

Recent BlackBook cover girl Olga Kurylenko pops up alongside heavy-hitters Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman in next spring's Oblivion, which I can assume is sort of like a live-action Wall-E but with more aliens and less fat-shaming. Cruise stands in for the aforementioned robot, acting as a one-man cleaning crew dispatched to an evacuated Earth following an intergalactic war. And then he finds some other people! And one of them is a strange, beautiful woman with a vague European accent who knows who he is! Will he make it out of Earth alive? Will he have to leave his tin-can plant behind? We'll have to wait until April to find out.