2011 2h 19m Terrence Malick

The Tree of Life

Name: The Tree of Life
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Released: 2011
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Sean Penn

★ 6.8 IMDb

Drama Fantasy

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

Writer Terrence Malick

Cast Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Sean Penn

DP Emmanuel Lubezki

Production Designer Jack Fisk

Music Alexandre Desplat

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life”: A Few Thoughts Subsequent to a Local Screening Sponsored by a College’s Theology Department by Joe McCulloch, MUBI Notebook Malick’s Music of the Spheres:The Tree of Life by Roger Hillman, Screening the Past

On Terrence Malick

Film, Film Criticism, and Terrence Malick: A Case Study by Bart Versteirt, photogénie Terrence Malick: Filmmaker and Philosopher by Hanne Schelstraete, Screening the Past

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