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This film is not for everyone, and I will admit I am agnostic about the final sequence, which suggests a closure and a redemption nothing else in the film has prepared us for. But this is visionary cinema on an unashamedly huge scale: cinema that’s thinking big. Malick makes an awful lot of other film-makers look timid and negligible by comparison.

Peter Bradshaw Cannes 2011 review: The Tree of Life | Film | guardian.co.uk

I don’t know how many times I’ve said I CAN’T WAIT to see Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life.

“Cinema that’s thinking big” is exactly my kind of cinema.

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Posted on Monday, May 16, 2011. Tagged with: filmTerrence Malickfilm-makers we needreviewThe Tree of Lifecinemacinema that's thinking bigPeter BradshawHYPE
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  2. phillipreeves said: Oh for fuck’s sake, FIVE STARS? Thanks a bunch Bradshaw, you’ve just ruined my life. Until I see the film, of course…
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Byronic
[bai'ra:-nik] 1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. 2. quasi-n. pl. [after Philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron. 3. Byronic hero: prominent literary character type of the Romantic period, whose characteristics include: extraordinary intelligence and perception; high level of education and intellectual prowess; arrogance; cunning and manipulation; emotional conflictedness; moodiness; self-criticism and introspection; self-destructive behaviour; aesthetic sophistication; dark mysterious beauty; powers of attraction; seductiveness and sexual perversion; world-weariness; distaste for social institutions and norms; disrespect of social ranks; being an outcast, an outlaw, or an exile.


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