The Tree of Life

3.33
    The Tree of Life
    2011

    Synopsis

    The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. 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. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

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    Cast

    • Brad PittMr. O'Brien
    • Sean PennJack
    • Jessica ChastainMrs. O'Brien
    • Hunter McCrackenYoung Jack
    • Laramie EpplerR.L.
    • Tye SheridanSteve
    • Fiona ShawGrandmother
    • Jessica FuselierGuide
    • Nicolas GondaMr. Reynolds
    • Will WallaceArchitect

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Variety

      Result is pure-grade art cinema destined primarily for the delectation of Malick partisans and adventurous arthouse-goers.
    • 100

      Time Out

      The Tree of Life enthralls right from the start.
    • 100

      Village Voice

      Better than a masterpiece - whatever that is - The Tree of Life is an eruption of a movie, something to live with, think, and talk about afterward.
    • 91

      IndieWire

      More meditation than movie, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life is bound to mystify, awe and exasperate in equal measures.
    • 90

      Boxoffice Magazine

      Aggressively impressionistic and unapologetically spiritual, Malick's long-gestating meditation on the meaning of life is, if nothing else, a singularly original and deeply personal film - a growing rarity in American cinema.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Brandishing an ambition it's likely no film, including this one, could entirely fulfill, The Tree of Life is nonetheless a singular work, an impressionistic metaphysical inquiry into mankind's place in the grand scheme of things that releases waves of insights amid its narrative imprecisions.
    • 90

      Salon

      The Tree of Life is pretty much nuts overall, a manic hybrid folly with flashes of brilliance. But even if that's true it's a noble crazy, a miraculous William Butler Yeats kind of crazy, alive with passion for art and the world, for all that is lost and not lost and still to come.
    • 90

      The New Yorker

      Tucked away inside the grandeur, though, and enlivened by jump cuts, is a sharp, not unharrowing story of a father and son, and, amid one's exasperation, there is no mistaking Malick's unfailing ability to grab at glories on the fly.

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