Every Thing Will Be Fine

Plot

The film centres around Tomas (James Franco), a writer who hits and kills a child in a car accident after having a trivial domestic quarrel and spends the next 12 years examining the effect of the tragedy on his life and that of Kate (Charlotte Gainsbourg) who lost someone close.

Production

Producer Gian-Piero Ringel, through his company Neue Road Movies, produced the film to which HanWay Films has worldwide distribution rights. Belgian Benoît Debie was the director of photography. It was released by Warner Bros. in Germany and by Mongrel Media in Canada. One week before the film’s premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, French composer Alexandre Desplat recorded the score with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in Sweden.

Casting

On May 7, 2013, James Franco joined the cast of the film as lead actor, playing Tomas Eldan, a writer who accidentally causes the death of a child. The day before shooting began, it was announced that the cast would include Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marie-Josée Croze; with Gainsbourg set to play the female lead role.

Filming

Director Wim Wenders began shooting the film on August 13, 2013 in Montreal, Quebec. After a break, shooting resumed in Winter 2014.

Release

The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 10, 2015. The film was released in Germany on April 2, 2015 and in France on April 22, 2015. The film had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, on September 11, 2015. Prior to the premiere, IFC Films acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film. The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on December 4, 2015.

Reception

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”.