Terence Malick’s latest film features an American (Ben Affleck) who falls in love with a French woman and a priest (Javier Bardem) who undergoes a crisis of faith.
IndieWire calls it “Malick’s most accessible work in years” while the Hollywood Reporter pans it as “inert” and “enervating.” The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw writes: “At its best, Malick’s cinematic rhapsody is glorious; during his uncertain moments, he appears to be repeating himself. But what delight there is in this film.”
December 20th, 2012 | 8:36 pm
Looks interesting. There are a lot of Malick fans out there, and they might benefit from the similar (slow, cosmic, profound, ambiguous) works of Andrei Tarkovsky. They are altogether slower, more cosmic, profounder, and more ambiguous.
December 20th, 2012 | 8:39 pm
Thank you for posting; it looks beautiful! The Tree of Life is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen…this looks very promising.
December 20th, 2012 | 9:55 pm
Call me a Philistine, but hard as I tried, I couldn’t get through Tree of Life. I appreciate what Malick was trying to do, I just didn’t particularly enjoy the way he did it.
December 22nd, 2012 | 4:42 pm
Looks promising, only Malick tends to lean to heavily on aesthetics and also detect a bit of his transcendental tendencies in this trailer. Nonetheless, as aforesaid, his latest looks promising and perhaps will prove his most mature expression of the Religious Sense yet.
Also, if anyone ever attempts a film rendition of The Thanatos Syndrome, Javier Bardem–the priest character in To the Wonder–must portray Fr. Ricardo Smith. That particular Percy novel might be difficult to turn into a film, especially a good film, but Malick himself did previously plan a Walker Percy on-film endeavor. He was going to do a film of The Moviegoer, but the tragedy of Katrina through a stumbling block into those plans.
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