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Date Posted: 08:19:58 05/16/11 Mon
Below are a snippets from a few The Tree of Life reviews. Terrence Malick's first film since The New World (2005), The Tree of Life stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain. Malick's latest was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, where it's in competition for the Palme d'Or.
Brandishing an ambition it’s likely no film, including this one, could entirely fulfill, The Tree of Life is nonetheless a singular work, an impressionistic metaphysical inquiry into mankind’s place in the grand scheme of things that releases waves of insights amidst its narrative imprecisions. … As such, it is hardly a movie for the masses and will polarize even buffs, some of whom may fail to grasp the connection between the depiction of the beginnings of life on Earth and the travails of a 1950s Texas family. Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter.
Few American filmmakers are as alive to the splendor of the natural world as Terrence Malick, but even by his standards, The Tree of Life represents something extraordinary. The iconoclastic director's long-awaited fifth feature is in many ways his simplest yet most challenging work, a transfixing odyssey through time and memory that melds a young boy's 1950s upbringing with a magisterial rumination on the Earth's origins. Result is pure-grade art cinema destined primarily for the delectation of Malick partisans and adventurous arthouse-goers, but with its cast names and see-it-to-believe-it stature, this inescapably divisive picture could captivate the zeitgeist for a spell. (Justin Chan, Variety.)
The new Terrence Malick [film] is a metaphysical meditation — on Good and Evil, Nature and Grace — of an incredible formal beauty. If the narrative is at times confusing, frequently going back and forth between the past and the present, memories and visions, the Texan master has created a unique work and probably his most personal film. (Paris-Match.)
An experimental work, The Tree of Life seems to be Malick's most free and most enclosed work. Some will surely poke fun at this science-fictional encounter between 2001: A Space Odyssey and Jurassic Park. (Romain Le Verne, excessif.com.)Top
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