The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011): Prince Charles Cinema, 12.15pm
This is a 35mm screening.
Chicago Reader review:
A masterpiece, this fifth feature by
Terrence Malick manages to reconcile the emotional force of his 70s
classics, Badlands and Days of Heaven, with the epic naturalism of his
more recent comeback films, The Thin Red Line (1998) and The New World
(2005). Brad Pitt gives an impressively sober, tight-lipped performance
as the rigid 1950s patriarch of a little family in Waco, Texas, a
decent but angry man whose strict treatment of his three young sons is
countered by the love and Christian grace of his ethereal wife (Jessica
Chastain). Interspersed with this humble family conflict are scenes of
the world's creation that Malick concocted with the legendary special
effects artist Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey). These audacious
sequences can't help but evoke the metaphysical questing of 2001, and
in fact The Tree of Life often feels like a religious response to
Stanley Kubrick's cold, cerebral view of our place in the universe. Not
to be missed.
JR Jones
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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