| ORIGINAL TITLE |
The Tree of Life |
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| DIRECTOR |
Terrence Malick |
| SCREENWRITER |
Terrence Malick |
| COMPOSER |
Alexandre Desplat |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER |
Emmanuel Lubezki |
| CAST |
Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Sean Penn, Laramie Eppler, Tye Sheridan, Fiona Shaw, Crystal Mantecon, Pell James, Joanna Going, Kari Matchett, Michael Showers |
| STUDIO/PRODUCER |
Fox Searchlight Pictures / Riverroad Entertainment |
| OFFICIAL WEB |
http://www.twowaysthroughlife.com/ |
| AWARDS |
2011: Academy Awards: Nominated for Best Film, Director & Cinematography
2011: Cannes Film Festival: Palm d'Or (Best Film)
2011: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Actor (Pitt), Supp. Actress and Cinematography
2011: NBR (National Board of Review): Top Ten Films of the Year
2011: Los Angeles Film Critics Awards: Best Director, Cinematography and Sup. Actress
2011: Chicago Film Critics: Best Film, Director, Supp. Actress (Chastain), Cinematography
2011: Satellite Awards: Best Original Screenplay & Best Supporting Actress (Chastain). 4 nom.
2011: Gotham Awards: Best Film (ex-aequo)
2011: Online Film Critics Society: 5 awards, including Best Film
2011: Critics Choice Awards: Best Cinematography (ex-aequo). 5 nominations
2011: Nominated for David di Donatello: Best Foreign Film
2011: American Film Institute (AFI): Top 10 - Movies of the Year |
| GENRE |
Drama | Family Relationships. Childhood. The 50s |
| SYNOPSIS/PLOT |
The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950's. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (Hunter McCracken, played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick's signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life. |
| PRO REVIEWS |
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"Even by [Malick's] standards, "The Tree of Life" represents something extraordinary. (...) his simplest yet most challenging work, (...) Result is pure-grade art cinema." (Justin Chang: Variety)
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"A unique film (...) a beauteous creation that ponders the imponderables, asks the questions that religious and thoughtful people have posed for millennia and provokes expansive philosophical musings along with intense personal introspection." (Todd McCarthy: The Hollywood Reporter)
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"Prehistoric and cosmic visions aside, Terrence Malick's film is an unashamedly epic reflection on love and loss. (...) Rating: ***** (out of five)" (Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian)
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"With disarming sincerity and daunting formal sophistication "The Tree of Life" ponders some of the hardest and most persistent questions, the kind that leave adults speechless when children ask them" (A. O. Scott: The New York Times)
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"There is simply nothing like it out there: profound, idiosyncratic, complex, sincere and magical; a confirmation that cinema can aspire to art. (...) Rating: ***** (out of five)" (Ian Nathan: Empire)
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"[Malick is] a meticulous visionary who knows where to place a camera, but he hasn't a clue about how to tell a story with simplicity and coherence" (Rex Reed: The New York Observer)
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