Terrence Malick’s Tree Of Life is rumoured to be featured in the Cannes Film Festival line-up for this year that’s set to be announced tomorrow – but you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who knows much about the film. That’s why we are thrilled to be able to share a few tidbits that Brad Pitt let slip about the film he calls “a bit ambitious”, which may enlighten you a little further.
When we asked him if this was a science fiction film (yes, even that is in doubt), Pitt replied, “Well, in a way. It’s this little tiny story of a kid growing up in the 50s with a mother who’s grace incarnate and a father who’s oppressive in nature. So he is negotiating his way through it, defining who he’s gonna be when he grows up. And that is juxtaposed with a little, tiny micro-story of the cosmos, from the beginning of the cosmos to the death of the cosmos. So that’s where the sci-fi – or the sci-fact – comes in.”
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