Song to Song

R

Released Mar 17, 2017

2 hr. 9 min.

Drama

Romance

Music

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131 Reviews

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Set against the Austin, Texas, music scene, two entangled couples -- struggling songwriters Faye (Rooney Mara) and BV (Ryan Gosling), and music mogul Cook (Michael Fassbender) and the waitress (Natalie Portman) whom he ensnares -- chase success through a rock 'n' roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.

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Critics Consensus

As visually sumptuous as it is narratively spartan, Terrence Malick's Song to Song echoes elements of the writer-director's recent work -- for better and for worse.

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Thomas P

I think I kind of felt something by the end but it's just so tedious and structureless that I can't really resonate with much right now. Pretty unique but a shorter runtime would have probably made It a more enjoyable "vibes" type of movie.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

04/12/24

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Bunk M

"Cook" Michael Fassbender leads us through the squealing Austin, TX music scene with "Faye" Rooney Mara, the beautiful, chameleon transplant, and "B.V" the guitar toting golden mane. Director Terrence Malick's brilliance is on full display, via the unmistakable strides of this All Star Cast.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/01/23

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Audience Member

It's a polarizing romantic drama type of character study with an interesting fly-on-the-wall visual style but even viewers who say the film is often too slow or alienating can't deny Terrence Malick's magnetism.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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William L

This stretch of Terrence Malick films is the first time I've set aside viewings specifically to catch up on a single director, and the first time that I've had a chance to see how a director changes from film to film. For most of his films since 2000, Malick has been employing a very similar style, essentially a montage of starkly edited clips that focus on the moments between the crescendos, stepping away from traditional Hollywood practices. He has always excelled at shot design, lighting, anf framing, and his idiosyncratic story design of recent years has been paired often quite effectively with the cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki; the fluidity and natural light employed typically blend very well with the stream-of-consciousness approach to storytelling. For some subject material, this approach seems to be appropriate (for instance, in the soul-searching of John Smith and Pocahontas as they are forced to explore clashing ways of life in The New World, or the mental and emotional wanderings of a lone, disaffected individual in the glitz of Hollywood in Knight of Cups). In Song to Song, it all doesn't seem to come together nearly as well. Thematically it's a slight variation on territory that he's covered before, and the vehicle actually seems to be far less impactful; it often seems more akin to a soap opera than a serious drama, something like an artistic rendition of a long Dallas episode. The acting quality is decent, but won't blow you away. If you like the formula (and it does seem like a formula by this point), you likely already have a much-preferred version of it in Malick's filmography. (2.5/5)

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

07/27/22

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Alvise F

The worst mess of Malick's career. Tedious and chaotic. Completely disjointed and devoid of that visceral intimacy achieved with "The Tree of Life", last effectively well-made work. The author has definitively standardized his style by depriving it of any depths, leaving only a vague and superficial impression.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/22/22

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Audience Member

This was the last feature film from Malick I had yet to see and while it doesn't vault to the top of his filmography for me, it certainly won't be relegated to the basement either. The visuals, with Chivo as the cinematographer, were beautiful and thankfully pretty engrossing as the narrative, and lack of a traditionally cohesive one, would have been harder to get into otherwise. I felt like Malick kept getting close, flirting with the type of transformative narration or dialogue that, when paired with his emotionally stimulating touch, can create masterpieces, and among some of my very favorite films. Close but no cigar, is probably a fitting label in this case, and it is easy to understand why there is such a varied reaction to this film, but Malick getting close is still better than many at their best.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Judy Berman

Pitchfork

... just another minor variation on Malick's favorite theme-the power of love and spirituality to transcend the life-poisoning curses of ambition and greed-and not a very effective one, at that.

Sep 21, 2017

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

Remember when Terrence Malick movies happened once in a geological age? God be with the days.

Rated: 1/5

Jul 26, 2017

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Geoffrey Macnab

Independent (UK)

"Nothing felt real," Mara laments at the start of Song To Song. That, sadly, is an observation that can just as well be aimed at the movie as a whole.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 12, 2017

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Colin Stacy

Vague Visages

Because Song to Song is so sprawling, there are moments that arrest some and not others, but it’d be almost impossible to walk away from the film without any memories resurfacing.

Dec 6, 2023

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Daniel de Partearroyo

Cinemanía (Spain)

A story whose predictability doesn't make the experience less exciting. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Sep 24, 2020

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Fiona Underhill

JumpCut Online

Prepare to be enthralled by the beauty and frustrated by the characters in equal measure. The experience is the same as going to an art gallery, something I love to do. Malick's work is art and art is supposed to be challenging.

Jul 12, 2020

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Synopsis

Set against the Austin, Texas, music scene, two entangled couples -- struggling songwriters Faye (Rooney Mara) and BV (Ryan Gosling), and music mogul Cook (Michael Fassbender) and the waitress (Natalie Portman) whom he ensnares -- chase success through a rock 'n' roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.

Director: Terrence Malick
Executive Producer: Glen Basner, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Tanner Beard
Screenwriter: Terrence Malick
Distributor: Broad Green Pictures
Production Co: Waypoint Entertainment, Broad Green Pictures
Rating: R (Language|Drug Use|Nudity|Some Sexuality)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 17, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 27, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $421.9K

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