Monday, 11 June 2012

Days of Heaven (1978)




☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ½

Days of Heaven (1978) – T. Malick

Pictorially amazing and with the most amazing editing, featuring a lot of cuts to shots of movement and then layers of movement within shots (how do I describe this -- must be seen!). The story is somewhat incidental to the full experience of beauty here (laborer Gere cooks up a plan that involves his girlfriend marrying rich farmer Sam Shepard who is supposedly dying). Using Nestor Almendros and Haskell Wexler must have helped to give Malick the kino eye here.




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