Released on: 1971
Rating: 7.70
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Cannes 2011 review: The Tree of Life
Prehistoric and cosmic visions aside, Terrence Malick's film is an unashamedly epic reflection on love and loss
Terrence Malick's mad and magnificent film descends slowly, like some sort of prototypical spaceship: it's a cosmic-interior epic of vainglorious proportions, a rebuke to realism, a disavowal of irony and comedy, a meditation on memory, and a gasp of horror and awe at the mysterious inevitability of loving, and losing those we love.
Sean Penn has a central but minor role as Jack, a careworn 21st-century corporate executive who is now disenchanted with his life. At the moment of crisis, he is carried back to an ecstatically remembered 1950s boyhood in smalltown America. He remembers his relationship with his demanding, disciplinarian father, played by Brad Pitt, and the brother who died at the age of 19: the news is brought to his distraught mother (Jessica Chastain) via an official communication – the»
- Peter Bradshaw
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Cannes 2011: Fancy an island? Step this way
Suite 156 at the Carlton Hotel is where the stars go for their goodie bags
I am padding through the deeply carpeted corridors of the Carlton Hotel in Cannes. This is five-star splendour, and every second I expect the hand of security on my shoulder. Then I step inside suite 156, the gifting suite. And whoops! Down the rabbit-hole I go.
This is the Dpa Lounge, where the stars come to receive gifts. Or, to put it another way, this is where people with many possessions go to receive many more. For the givers, the hope is for something better than cash: celebrity endorsement.
Here are tables loaded with bags, shoes, cushions, jewels, sunglasses. I am ushered to the man hovering over sunglasses. What, I enquire, do you usually do when a star comes in? "I'd take a look at your clothes, your shoes. See what makeup you are wearing, the state of your dental care,»
- Charlotte Higgins
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