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Film · 2011
The Tree of Life
A 1950s Texas childhood unfolds as three brothers grow up under their father's severe demands and their mother's unconditional affection. Years later as an adult architect in modern Houston, the eldest son reflects on his family's loss and seeks meaning through memories of the cosmos and youth.
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It is a magnificent, toweringly ambitious and visionary work – brilliantly shot by Emmanuel Lubezki, passionately felt, and deeply serious in its address to the audience. The Tree of Life is about the inner crisis of a tormented man in his middle years and the terrible unchangeability of the past.
Peter Bradshaw on The Guardian Shot with a poet's eye, Malick's film is a groundbreaker, a personal vision that dares to reach for the stars.
Peter Travers on Rolling Stone The Tree of Life is a film of vast ambition and deep humility, attempting no less than to encompass all of existence and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal lives. The only other film I've seen with this boldness of vision is Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and it lacked Malick's fierce evocation of human feeling.
Roger Ebert on RogerEbert.com
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