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Category: tree of life
SF Gate
There will be few halfhearted reactions to Terrence Malick’s grandly ambitious new film, “The Tree of Life,” which last week was awarded the Palme d’Or, the Cannes Film Festival’s highest prize.
Partisans of the director, one of American film’s few genuine visionaries (“Days of Heaven,” “The New World”), will see it as a deeply moving, poetic meditation that addresses classic spiritual and philosophical questions with sublime images and minimal dialogue. Viewers of a different temperament will find it self-important and arty in the worst way.
The cast includes Brad Pitt as the authoritarian father, Bay Area native Jessica Chastain as his wife and Sean Penn as the grown-up son. Chronicle Movie Critic Mick LaSalle calls Pitt’s performance one of the actor’s finest.
Pitt spoke by phone from Los Angeles.
In exclusive video, Brad Pitt and others explain ‘The Tree of Life’
It’s been one of the bigger cinematic mysteries ever since buzz around the movie intensified last year — just what exactly is “The Tree of Life” about? Terrence Malick’s new film, as those of us who saw it in Cannes described, grapples with many subjects — love and family, nature and religion, sadness and suffering. In this new exclusive video, actors Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, along with the film’s producers, walk us through clips and moments in one of the spring’s most anticipated films.
Washington Post
Snapshot: An unseasonably hot May night in New York, 1991. The feminist road movie “Thelma & Louise” has just had a splashy premiere, with an after-party at a Mexican restaurant. A 27-year-old actor named Brad Pitt, who started the night as an unknown, has emerged from the screening as the breakout story. At the party, he and his girlfriend, Juliette Lewis, greet well-wishers at their table — not a crush of fans, mind you, but the kind of high-energy scrum that announces to everyone present: From now on, this young man will be a star.
A friend and I happened to witness the transformation firsthand that night. But as we watched the blond, baby-faced actor throw back beers with his posse, we weren’t entirely sure whether Pitt knew that his life had irrevocably changed.
“I remember that night,” he said in a call from Los Angeles last week. “But I was absolutely naive and was not prepared for what it would mean. I just wanted to be in movies, I wanted opportunities, and that’s what I saw from that.”
Read more. Really nice interview. Btw, I also updated BP Press, go have a look.
