Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick
1978 US (1st time)
A farm labourer from Chicago encourages his lover to marry the rich landowner, who is dying, in order to make a fortune.
Gorgeously shot gem, a quiet narrative which is perhaps best described as a "surface" film: nothing much is particularly explored here; the voice-over is effectively unsentimental, the relationships are not explored in any real depth, and the characters seem to exist without any real purpose. It is a more complex film than Badlands in its multiple perspective narrative, and a base upon which Malick would further this technique, albeit decades later.


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