tree of life
Cannes 2011
The hottest ticket is Malick’s long-gestating The Tree of Life. The drama, starring Pitt and Penn, was originally set to bow last year in Cannes before perfectionist Malick withdrew it to tinker further. The delay has only heightened the film’s enigmatic allure, and expectations are high.
“It was very important for Cannes to have this movie because we have been talking about it for a year now,” says Xavier Leherpeur, a film critic for French movie magazine Studio CineLive. “I want it to be great.”
Malick has been to Cannes only once before — in 1979, when he won the director prize for Days of Heaven. But even sight unseen, Tree of Life, which screens May 16, is the odds-on favorite to win the Palme d’Or.That said, Malick has some stiff competition.
New Poster For ‘Tree Of Life’ Reveals New Image
While some in The Playlist team are flagging under the onslaught of marketing for “The Tree Of Life,” this is a film we’ve been following literally for years and while we just want the next couple of weeks to pass by quickly so we can finally see the film, we’ll continue to take what we can get from it for now.
A new international poster for the film has landed and half of it is taken up with an image from the film we haven’t seen yet of Brad Pitt playing with his two sons in what must be happier times after the dinosaurs and before the Sean Penn adult moroseness sets in. But that’s not all out there for those looking forward to Terrence Malick‘s film. The soundtrack to the film by Alexandre Desplat has begun streaming over at Amazon. But listening to the music before seeing the movie is a bit odd, at least in this instance, so we’ll wait a bit before weighing in.
“The Tree Of Life” hits Cannes next month and opens on May 27th. Full poster below.
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