In somewhat surprising yet thoroughly thumbs up worthy news, FilmNation Entertainment has today announced that they are handling international sales and distribution on Terrence Malick’s next two films, ‘Lawless’ and ‘Knight Of Cups.’ These two films will presumably follow Malick’s untitled romantic drama which is currently in post-production, that films stars Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem, Barry Pepper, Rachel McAdams, and Rachel Weisz.

‘Lawless’ will star Ryan Gosling (Drive, The Ides of March) and boasts a supporting cast that includes Academy Award Winners Christian Bale (The Dark Knight, The Flowers of War), Cate Blanchett (The Hobbit, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) plus Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network) and Haley Bennett (Marley & Me, The Haunting of Molly Hartley). The second film, ‘Knight Of Cups, will star Christian Bale with a supporting cast including Cate Blanchett and Isabel Lucas (Immortals, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen). Both films are currently in pre-production and will shoot back-to-back in 2012. Sarah Green (Untitled Terrence Malick Project, The Tree of Life, The New World, Take Shelter, Mud) and Nicolas Gonda (Untitled Terrence Malick Project, The Tree of Life, The New World) will serve as the producers on both films with FilmNation Entertainment handling international sales during this week’s AFM.

Since Malick’s debut film ‘Badlands’ in 1973, Malick has only made four other films, ‘Days Of Heaven,’ ‘The Thin Red Line,’ ‘The New World,’ and this years ‘The Tree of Life.’ It looks like with three films on his slate, Malick’s work pace is speeding up! Glen Basner, CEO of FilmNation Entertainment commented: “FilmNation couldn’t be happier to continue to act as Terrence’s international sales agency. Terrence is a brilliant filmmaker and an enormous draw for talent and filmmakers alike. We look forward to robust sales at AFM on both of these films.”

“Glen Basner and the entire FilmNation team continue to be excellent partners. We are thrilled to be working with them again to bring these extraordinary projects to audiences around the world”, commented producers Sarah Green and Nicolas Gonda.

Terrence Malick’s ’The Tree Of Life’ is truly a hymn to life, excavating answers to the most haunting and personal human questions through a kaleidoscope of the intimate and the cosmic, from the raw emotions of a family in a small Texan town to the wildest, infinite edges of space and time, from a boy’s loss of innocence to a man’s transforming encounters with awe, wonder and transcendence.

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 (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and the meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick’s signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace, represented in the family by Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain’s characters respectively, shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life. Check out what Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain had to say about the film below. ’The Tree Of Life’ is out in cinemas now.

Working with Terrence Malick must be an extraordinary and unique experience?

Brad Pitt: I could go on far too long about this (laughs), my section of the story takes place in the 50’s, Terry started by renting this entire block and dressing it as the 1950’s, therefore allowing us to go outside, wherever we wanted. His idea is, even though he gave us this very dense script, he never wanted us to do what he calls hammer and tongs – seeing to it as it’s written, he’s more interested in catching what was happening on the day. He’s like a guy standing there with a big butterfly net, waiting for that moment of truth to go by. The kids themselves weren’t given the script, they had a closet of clothes, they put on what they wanted to put on that day and that’s what we shot in. We would do two takes…..Terry would get up every morning and write for an hour, he would give us pages in the morning and we would develop something out of that. I think because of that the moments are fresh, they’re not preconceived in anyway, the lighting even, there was only one light in the house, everything else was natural light.

It was a pretty incredible experience, I don’t know if I could do them all that way because it is exhausting, but you see what you get. Also he does what he calls torpedoing a scene, the youngest child he called the torpedo, on the first take me and Jessica Chastain are having an argument, we’re going at it, raising our voices, doing what you do. Then on the second take unbeknownst to us he would send in the torpedo and get him to sit at the table, suddenly it changed the whole tenure and tone of the scene. This is something that would go on, on a daily basis. I could go on for days about working with Terry.

Jessica Chastain: For me it was a lot about giving up any idea of what the plan might be on the first scene, or on a day that we were going to film, it was all about capturing an accident. There was a scene where we were shooting a grief section and I remember I was watching Brad, he was so good, then there’s this Woodpecker going and Terry was like, “there’s a Woodpecker somewhere!” And he’d point the camera towards that. But there’s always ways to incorperate it,  even in the trailer when you hear the voiceover go “there are two ways through life, the way of nature, and the way of grace,” you hear a bird in the background, that’s actually from the set, when I was doing the voiceover.

Has working like that changed how you work since?

Brad Pitt: It’s changed everything I’ve done since. I’ve found that the best moments, what I find as the best moments, were not pre-conceived, they were not planned, they were the happy accident. In the things I’ve done since I’ve tried to go more in that direction. There’s intense study going into it but then going off the script a bit, seeing where it takes you, what happens.

The theme of creation, the mysteries, the religious themes run through the movie…

Brad Pitt: We had a lot of theological debates throughout the process, philosophies, religion, really interesting, he’s a very interesting man to talk to. I would say Terry is more of a spiritualist than a compartmentalised….version of Christianity, he has a more universal viewpoint in my opinion.

Did you relate to your character at all?

Brad Pitt: I can speak a little about the southern upbringing, but I find this film more universal. I hope it speaks to all cultures, in as far as childhood, deciding who you are going to be when you grow up, from child to young adult, you try things, some things work, some things don’t, you’re being honed by the influences around you. In this case the Mother represented grace and love and all that is pure and good, and the Father represents this oppressive nature, the nature that must survive, that will choke out this other plant in order to do so. The young child is trying both things on and figuring out what works for him and what he will be when he grows up. Then there are the bigger questions, the impermanence of life that we all go through.

The southern upbringing, I’m making it a cliché almost, but there is truth to a purity and sweetness to the mother, and a more father-knows-best mentality, a father is provider. And in the film you see the American dream as we grow up to understand, it is not working for….the father is on the tail end of that, there’s a lot of anger because of it, he intern passes that on to his sons inadvertently and unintentionally. I do think that there are parts of the story that are very personal to Terry, there are elements of the story that are personal to me, but I don’t think it mirrors, or is an exact template of either one of us.

How did you go about shaping your character Jessica?

Jessica Chastain: When I first read the script I realised she’s the kind of woman that you just aspire to be. She’s all goodness, trusting, forgiving, all love. It’s difficult because you think, “gosh, how can I play a character that is this spiritual and loving and pure?” Then I kind of realised that the way into her was through her love for her children. I thought if I do that then that’s the key of finding of who she is. That’s where I started. Also I watched a lot of movies from the 1930’s and 40’s that Terrence Malick asked me to watch, I watched a lot of Lauren Bacall, he asked me to because there was a different way of talking back then. Terry said to me, which I find is true, and which I do a lot, the way we speak nowadays, we speak so fast because we’re afraid someone is going to cut us off, so we talk kind of rambling (laughs). But if you watch movies from the 40’s and 30’s there’s this confidence and directness, it’s very slow how they speak, which is actually the way Terry speaks in real life, he speaks very slow and direct, you don’t expect it to take as long as it takes (laughs), but you’re listening to every word. Those were the places that I started. I got to work with Terry about three months before we started shooting, I went to visit him a couple times. I had to cultivate a grace within myself, which meant a lot of meditating, a lot of reading about the spirit.

How was it portraying that grace?

Jessica Chastain: It was tough, in a way sometimes it was like acting with a straight jacket on, there’s these scenes where Mr. O’Brien, Brad Pitt, would be doing something that’s not necessarily the most generous or kind, especially to the boys. And me being who I am in the film, I just wanted to go up to him and say, “stop!” Because a lot of it, a lot of the movie, the way we filmed is so…..Terry would give us the lines, but then he’d also add lines as we’re filming, then also you’re encouraged to do want you want to do.

Making the film it was a huge lesson in completely letting go of control, of what you expect an outcome to be. That was a great lesson that I took away from the film, absolutely being in the moment when acting. With Terry you can’t plan any moment, there’s a section where a butterfly lands on my hand, it’s not on the script, we didn’t put anything on my hand to make it land there, he creates a set where he allows for those moments to happen.

In that it was evolving in captured moments, when you saw the film what surprised you most about it?

Brad Pitt: I was surprised first off all by the structure, I thought it was quite ingenious. This marriage with the micro and the macro I found most interesting, he tells this micro story of this family in this small town in Texas. Then that’s juxtaposed with the macro of the birth of the cosmos, cells splitting. I find that quite extraordinary, there seems to be some parallel truths in that.

What attracted you to the story?

Brad Pitt: We were already on board as producers. One of the unfortunate things about this business is that sometimes great stories have a great difficulty getting made, even when there are people involved like Terry Malick. We’ve witnessed a lot of really strong scripts go by the way-side and not get made. We wanted to ensure this one did, so I jumped in.

I was a little hesitant about playing the oppressive father, but I felt like the story was so important….and to me really about the kids journey. I think about everything I do now, what my kids are gonna see, how they’re gonna feel. But I think they know me as a Dad, I hope they would just think I’m a pretty damn good actor (laughs).

How do you pick your roles? You seem to pick these meatier character studies.

Brad Pitt: Like the film itself, you want to discover, you want it to be about something, you want to find something new, I always have. I want to find something different, that’s been my focus. Also about 10 years ago I started thinking about what my favourite films, they weren’t the big commercial things, they were things that had a little more depth, things that had bigger questions, or were REALLY REALLY funny. I do like a comedy. There’s some great comedy coming out of America right now, Zach Galifiankis, Jonah Hill and Danny McBride. But the point of it for me is to keep messing it up. I figure there’s only so many more of these I’ll get to do and I wanna make sure it has some worth to me, and it has some more worth out there than that is something that is disposable.

A man of few words, Terrence Malick cuts a reclusive shape in the veiled shadows of Hollywood’s dazzling limelight. The word “reclusive”, however, may appear to be an understatement for a man of whom it is believed barely any, and mostly dated, photographs exist. Not only that, but he almost never gives interviews, not even to promote his films. Nevertheless, his quietness and notably long periods of mysterious absence seem to have elevated him to a godlike status in film-making circles, with fellow professionals desperate to get close to him.

What tales do emerge about Malick, paint a portrait of an unmatched talent encumbered by a burly eccentric streak and obsessive secrecy. As a passionate and conscientious student at Harvard, he studied philosophy, specialising in Heidegger – whose work is thought to have a strong influence in his films. Upon graduating Malick also spent time studying at Oxford University, but is thought to have left before completing his studies. He later worked as a teacher and a journalist before moving into film where he would ultimately make a name for himself.

Malick is undoubtedly elusive by nature. His films, on the other hand, speak boundlessly and spoil us undeservedly with magical imagery and impossibly absorbing story telling. Where other films have acquired fans, Malick’s attain disciples. Yet in nearly 30 years the critically acclaimed mastermind has directed just five films, culminating with The Tree of Life – due for its much anticipated UK release on July 8th.

Badlands (1973)

Malick began his illustrious career as a screenplay writer. However when one of his screen plays was made into what Paramount felt to be an ‘unrealisable’ film, Malick decided that he must direct his own scripts. Starring the highly commended Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, Badlands introduced Malick onto the scene as a serious talent, in the auteur mould.

The fictional story of Badlands is a loosely based dramatisation of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950′s. The plot charts the exploits of a young girl and her boyfriend as they commit a string of seemingly random yet hideously violent murders across the American state of South Dakota. Upon release the film was lauded for its intriguing narrative and astounding cinematography. The sheer mass of raving critics led to Warner Bros purchasing the distribution rights for three times the movies budget.

Days of Heaven (1978)

After the huge success of film, Malick set about the release of his second. However, as his personality so blatantly projects, he was in no rush. In fact, Days of Heaven spent two years in post production while the curious and innovative Malick and his crew experimented with unconventional editing and voice over techniques.

Finally, in 1978, the film was released. Circled around an evolving live triangle on a Texan farm in the early 20th century, Days of Heaven also had a top billed cast, including Richard Gere and Brook Adams. A series of unfortunate events unfold, as illustrated by a gripping narrative; a technique which Malick has become known to exploit in almost all of his films. Another beautiful and resounding success the film won the Oscar for best cinematography and Malick himself won best director at the 1979 Cannes Festival.

The Thin Red Line (1998)

After the Oscar-winning Days of Heaven came out in 1978, Malick disappeared from the film world for some 20 years, not re-emerging until The Thin Red Line came out in 1998. Even the reasons behind his disappearance from film remain a mystery and his elusiveness has had the effect of only adding to his allure. Eccentrically, in his contract for directing his third film, he stated that no current pictures of him could be published or shown anywhere.

With a large ensemble of acclaimed stars, The Thin Red Line was loosely based on James Jones World War II novel of the same name. Focused specifically on the battle of Guadalcanal, the film explored how the horrors of war forced a group of young soldiers into a tight-knit group developing resilient bonds of love and family. Unsurprisingly the film received much critical acclaim and was nominated for numerous awards.

The New World (2005)

Recently hailed as one of the best films of this decade, The New World used over a million feet of film, with three different versions, of varying length, released. Malick began writing the screenplay for this film in the 1970s but was only given the opportunity to produce it after funding for another film fell through.

The New World features a romantic and vibrant interpretation of the eminent story of John Smith and Pocahontas. Akin to all of Malick’s previous pieces of work it was a period piece set in America; a winning formula that he seems wildly reluctant to discard. Despite receiving mixed reviews during its theatrical run, it was still nominated for an Oscar for best cinematography.

The Tree of Life (2011)

The latest of Malick’s instalments is just as highly anticipated as his previous work, perhaps even more so. Rumours suggest that he began writing the screenplay immediately after the release of Days of Heaven, the results of which present an intricate script coupled with beautiful and awe-inspiring imagery.

A trademark Malick masterpiece, The Tree of Life is an impressionistic story of a 1950’s Midwestern family, following the life journey of the eldest son, Jack (Sean Penn), through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it won the coveted Palme d’Or. The Tree of Life is due for its much anticipated UK release on July 8th.

With Terrence Malick’s Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain starring Palme d’Or winner, ‘The Tree Of Life,’ scheduled for a July 8th UK and Ireland release, the good folks over at Fox Searchlight have provided us with this UK trailer, poster and quad for the film. ’The Tree Of Life’ is a hymn to life, excavating answers to the most haunting and personal human questions through a kaleidoscope of the intimate and the cosmic, from the raw emotions of a family in a small Texan town to the wildest, infinite edges of space and time, from a boy’s loss of innocence to a man’s transforming encounters with awe, wonder and transcendence.

From Terrence Malick, the acclaimed director of such classic films as Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950’s. 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 (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick’s signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life.

‘The Tree of Life’ is Terrence Malick’s deeply philosophical, visually stunning and ambitious story of a Midwestern family in the 1950’s. 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 (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick’s signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life. Check out what Brad Pitt had to say about the film at the Cannes Film Festival below. The film is set for release May 27th.

Working with Terrence Malick must be an extraordinary and unique experience?

Brad Pitt: I could go on far too long about this (laughs), my section of the story takes place in the 50’s, Terry started by renting this entire block and dressing it as the 1950’s, therefore allowing us to go outside, wherever we wanted. His idea is, even though he gave us this very dense script, he never wanted us to do what he calls hammer and tongs – seeing to it as it’s written, he’s more interested in catching what was happening on the day. He’s like a guy standing there with a big butterfly net, waiting for that moment of truth to go by. The kids themselves weren’t given the script, they had a closet of clothes, they put on what they wanted to put on that day and that’s what we shot in. We would do two takes…..Terry would get up every morning and write for an hour, he would give us pages in the morning and we would develop something out of that. I think because of that the moments are fresh, they’re not preconceived in anyway, the lighting even, there was only one light in the house, everything else was natural light.

It was a pretty incredible experience, I don’t know if I could do them all that way because it is exhausting, but you see what you get. Also he does what he calls torpedoing a scene, the youngest child he called the torpedo, on the first take me and Jessica Chastain are having an argument, we’re going at it, raising our voices, doing what you do. Then on the second take unbeknownst to us he would send in the torpedo and get him to sit at the table, suddenly it changed the whole tenure and tone of the scene. This is something that would go on, on a daily basis. I could go on for days about working with Terry.

Has working like that changed how you work since?

Brad Pitt: It’s changed everything I’ve done since. I’ve found that the best moments, what I find as the best moments, were not pre-conceived, they were not planned, they were the happy accident. In the things I’ve done since I’ve tried to go more in that direction. There’s intense study going into it but then going off the script a bit, seeing where it takes you, what happens.

The theme of creation, the mysteries, the religious themes run through the movie…

Brad Pitt: We had a lot of theological debates throughout the process, philosophies, religion, really interesting, he’s a very interesting man to talk to. I would say Terry is more of a spiritualist than a compartmentalised….version of Christianity, he has a more universal viewpoint in my opinion.

Did you relate to your character at all?

Brad Pitt: I can speak a little about the southern upbringing, but I find this film more universal. I hope it speaks to all cultures, in as far as childhood, deciding who you are going to be when you grow up, from child to young adult, you try things, some things work, some things don’t, you’re being honed by the influences around you. In this case the Mother represented grace and love and all that is pure and good, and the Father represents this oppressive nature, the nature that must survive, that will choke out this other plant in order to do so. The young child is trying both things on and figuring out what works for him and what he will be when he grows up. Then there are the bigger questions, the impermanence of life that we all go through.

The southern upbringing, I’m making it a cliché almost, but there is truth to a purity and sweetness to the mother, and a more father-knows-best mentality, a father is provider. And in the film you see the American dream as we grow up to understand, it is not working for….the father is on the tail end of that, there’s a lot of anger because of it, he intern passes that on to his sons inadvertently and unintentionally. I do think that there are parts of the story that are very personal to Terry, there are elements of the story that are personal to me, but I don’t think it mirrors, or is an exact template of either one of us.

In that it was evolving in captured moments, when you saw the film what surprised you most about it?

Brad Pitt: I was surprised first off all by the structure, I thought it was quite ingenious. This marriage with the micro and the macro I found most interesting, he tells this micro story of this family in this small town in Texas. Then that’s juxtaposed with the macro of the birth of the cosmos, cells splitting. I find that quite extraordinary, there seems to be some parallel truths in that.

What attracted you to the story?

Brad Pitt: We were already on board as producers. One of the unfortunate things about this business is that sometimes great stories have a great difficulty getting made, even when there are people involved like Terry Malick. We’ve witnessed a lot of really strong scripts go by the way-side and not get made. We wanted to ensure this one did, so I jumped in.

I was a little hesitant about playing the oppressive father, but I felt like the story was so important….and to me really about the kids journey. I think about everything I do now, what my kids are gonna see, how they’re gonna feel. But I think they know me as a Dad, I hope they would just think I’m a pretty damn good actor (laughs).

How do you pick your roles? You seem to pick these meatier character studies.

Brad Pitt: Like the film itself, you want to discover, you want it to be about something, you want to find something new, I always have. I want to find something different, that’s been my focus. Also about 10 years ago I started thinking about what my favourite films, they weren’t the big commercial things, they were things that had a little more depth, things that had bigger questions, or were REALLY REALLY funny. I do like a comedy. There’s some great comedy coming out of America right now, Zach Galifiankis, Jonah Hill and Danny McBride. But the point of it for me is to keep messing it up. I figure there’s only so many more of these I’ll get to do and I wanna make sure it has some worth to me, and it has some more worth out there than that is something that is disposable.

This debut clip from Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree Of Life’ – by a stretch my most anticipated film of 2011 – has been released online (via EW) featuring a trio of brothers (one of whom’s the younger version of Sean Penn’s character) tormenting their mother (Jessica Chastain) with some kind of small lizard while their overbearing father (Brad Pitt) is away. Malick’s films are continuously deeply philosophical and rich. Since his debut film ‘Badlands’ in 1973, Malick has only made three other films, ‘Days Of Heaven,’ ‘The Thin Red Line’ and ‘The New World.’ From what I’ve seen so far I’m supremely confident his fifth will be as amazing, if not more so. The film is set for release May 27th in the US, the UK release date is currently up in the air due to legal wranglings between Icon and Summit Entertainment.

From Terrence Malick, the acclaimed director of such classic films as Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950’s. 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 (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick’s signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life. The Tree Of Life is set for release May 27th, 2011.

IMP Awards have uncovered this new international poster for Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree Of Life’ – by a stretch my most anticipated film of 2011. Malick’s films are continuously deeply philosophical and rich. Since his debut film ‘Badlands’ in 1973, Malick has only made three other films, ‘Days Of Heaven,’ ‘The Thin Red Line’ and ‘The New World.’ From what I’ve seen so far I’m supremely confident his fifth will be as amazing, if not more so. The film is set for release May 27th in the US, the UK release date is currently up in the air due to legal wranglings between Icon and Summit Entertainment.

From Terrence Malick, the acclaimed director of such classic films as Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950’s. 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 (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick’s signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life. The Tree Of Life is set for release May 27th, 2011.

This new French poster has been released online for Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree Of Life’ – by a stretch my most anticipated film of 2011. Malick’s films are continuously deeply philosophical and rich. Since his debut film ‘Badlands’ in 1973, Malick has only made three other films, ‘Days Of Heaven,’ ‘The Thin Red Line’ and ‘The New World.’ From what I’ve seen so far I’m supremely confident his fifth will be as amazing, if not more so. The film is set for release May 18th in France, and May 27th in the US.

From Terrence Malick, the acclaimed director of such classic films as Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950’s. 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 (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick’s signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life. The Tree Of Life is set for release May 27th, 2011.

Fox Searchlight/Summit International have created this viral website Two Ways Through Life for Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree Of Life’ – by a stretch my most anticipated film of 2011. The site presents “the life journey of a young boy” as split into two paths – “the father’s way” and “the mother’s way,” featuring brief clips, images and descriptions.

Malick’s films are continuously deeply philosophical and rich. Since his debut film ‘Badlands’ in 1973, Malick has only made three other films (Days Of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The New World). I’m supremely confident his fifth will be as amazing, if not more so. The film is set for release May 4th in the UK, and May 27th in the US

From Terrence Malick, the acclaimed director of such classic films as Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950’s. 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 (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick’s signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life. The Tree Of Life is set for release May 27th, 2011.

This wonderful French poster has been released online (via ecranlarge) for Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree Of Life’ – by a stretch my most anticipated film of 2011. Malick films are continuously deeply philosophical and rich. Since his debut film ‘Badlands’ in 1973, Malick has only made three other films (Days Of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The New World). I’m supremely confident his fifth will be as amazing, if not more so. The film is set for release May 4th in the UK, and May 27th in the US

From Terrence Malick, the acclaimed director of such classic films as Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950’s. 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 (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick’s signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life. The Tree Of Life is set for release May 27th, 2011.