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Song to Song

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Original title: Song to Song
Year: 2017
Running time: 129 min.
Country: United States
Director: Terrence Malick
Screenwriter: Terrence Malick
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Val Kilmer, Trevante Rhodes, Angela Bettis, Bérénice Marlohe, Florence Welch, Holly Hunter, Iggy Pop, Flea, Lykke Li, Patti Smith, Austin Amelio, Olivia Grace Applegate, Linda Emond, Tom Sturridge
Producer: Filmnation Entertainment, Buckeye Pictures, Waypoint Entertainment, Sin Sentido Films
Genre: Drama. Romance | Music
Synopsis / Plot: Two intersecting love triangles. Obsession and betrayal set against the music scene in Austin, Texas. Two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye (Rooney Mara) and BV (Ryan Gosling), and music mogul Cook (Michael Fassbender) and the waitress whom he ensnares (Natalie Portman) — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.

Critics' reviews

"We've heard it all before: soul-sick characters, wide-angle vignettes, wispy poetic musings (...) It pains me to say it, but Malick might want to consider another lengthy hiatus."

Peter Debruge: Variety
"Gives more ammo to those who've turned on the revered auteur. (...) Suffice to say that Song to Song is not designed to win back onetime admirers who felt Malick's To the Wonder and Knight of Cups drowned in their own navels."6

John DeFore: The Hollywood Reporter
"Very Malick, and not much more (...) The results are as gorgeous and meandering as you might expect. (...) much of the movie’s potential is overshadowed by the impulses of a director unwilling to get there."

Eric Kohn: IndieWire
"In terms of content and meaningfulness, Terrence Malick's Song to Song is the cinematic equivalent of a Trump press conference."

Joe McGovern: Entertainment Weekly
"Chastely childish (...) In fact, so enervated, so physically insubstantial is Rooney's character that we rarely see Faye engage in the kinetic activity most often performed by Malick's women"

Melissa Anderson: Village Voice
"Connect with the kineticism of 'Song to Song', and it might just leave you breathless."

Bilge Ebiri: Village Voice
"A masterpiece, life-changing and other superlatives I stand by (...) It is suffused with that feeling of when you want to cry but can't (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

Christopher Hooton: The Independent
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