While it may sound like one of the platitudes that James Franco's character is accused of delivering at one point, the title of Wim Wenders' new film "Every Thing Will Be Fine" contains a clue to its approach. It's in that space between "Every" and "Thing." This is very much a film about Things —not objects, not any particular thing, but Things. Characters wonder how Things are going. They worry Things are not working out. They ask how Things are with each other. They wish they could make Things better. They lament the fact they want different Things. And when they have no other recourse to explain events, they blame Things for doing what Things do: happening.
Some of the Things that happen over the course of the decade or so the film spans are as follows: Tomas (Franco) is already having trouble with his girlfriend Sara (Rachel McAdams) in the course of struggling to write a novel, when on the way home one evening, he's involved in an accident that...
