BIFF 2017: Song to Song
Terrence Malick’s latest feature, Song to Song, clarifies the experimentation of his previous two films.
Terrence Malick’s latest feature, Song to Song, clarifies the experimentation of his previous two films.
It’s easy, and not entirely inaccurate, to regard Knight of Cups as the apotheosis of “Malickian.” Terrence Malick’s latest film, centring on the idle thoughts and innumerable conquests of Christian Bale’s Hollywood A-lister (think Coppola’s Somewhere – Los Angeles as purgatory), has all the easily-parodied tropes that have come to define the director’s work. The…