Terrence Malick’s long-delayed “Tree of Life” with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn is conspicuously absent from Variety’s new list of films it predicts will be in the Venice Film Festival lineup to be announced next week.
The mysterious generation-spanning supernatural drama, which does not have a release date, had been tipped to bow at Venice ever since it failed to make the list at the Cannnes Film Festival in May.
Variety doesn’t even mention “Tree of Life,” but says that Darren Aronofky’s supernatural ballet thriller “Black Swan” with Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis is “likely” to be the Venice opener on Sept. 1.
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Tree of Life gets rated
Terrence Malick’s (The Thin Red Line) upcoming film The Tree of Life has just received its rating from the MPAA. Via Rope of Silicon, the film will be PG-13 for “some thematic material.” While knowing the film’s rating is nice (if you’re into that sort of thing), the real pull here is that someone has actually seen the long delayed film. In fact, when you consider that no official images and/or trailers have been released for it to date, the rating itself takes on a whole new life of its own as hope that it may actually get released around the time of its latest purported release date, November 2010.
In case you need a refresher for the film, hit the jump to read what we know about it thus far and to check out an official synopsis.
Cannes 2010
Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, which stars Pitt, was long expected to make the cut, but was suspiciously absent when the entrants were announced at a press conference this morning. Festival director Thierry Fremaux said that he saw a rough cut of the film a few months ago but that it was not quite ready for the curtain to rise.
Read more. Thanks Busra.
Brad Pitt Talks Tree Of Life
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.”
Read more. Thanks Busra.
Cannes 2010
Age hasn’t withered the star power of the Cannes Film Festival. The 63rd edition, from May 12-23, should deliver appearances by Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, whose multi-generational saga, Tree of Life for Days of Heaven director Terence Malick, is being touted as a shoo-in entry.
Read more. This is unconfirmed.
