Wednesday, 22 January 2014

The golden fields of Texas

Days of Heaven (1978)

Written and directed by Terrence Malick this film stars Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard and Linda Manz. During the great depression a couple posing as brother an sister work on a farm in Texas and get caught in a love triangle with the sick man that owns the farm.

The plot of this film is fairly simple and not overly unique but provides a decent foundation for this film. Unusually we often see the characters in conversation but are left to infer the general idea of what they are saying which works pretty well given the simple nature of the story. Where the film is amazing is in it's execution, this is one of the best looking films you will see and it captures landscapes as well as events with more than a nod to the biblical really well.


4/5

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