Song to Song

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    Song to Song
    2017

    Synopsis

    In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.

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    Cast

    • Ryan GoslingBV
    • Rooney MaraFaye
    • Michael FassbenderCook
    • Natalie PortmanRhonda
    • Cate BlanchettAmanda
    • Holly HunterMiranda
    • Bérénice MarloheZoey
    • Val KilmerDuane
    • Lykke LiLykke
    • Patti SmithPatti Smith

    Recommendations

    • 83

      The Film Stage

      Any number of sequences find feelings both externalized and hidden intermingling within the same shot, continuing in a subsequent image that carries the impression, the feeling, without replicating the exact tenor of what has just been seen. They exist simultaneously as certain backstories and what motivations they may inspire delicately unfold.
    • 80

      The Guardian

      Song to Song is, once you root around for a story, the best of a recent trilogy.
    • 70

      ScreenCrush

      Malick has found a way to translate how a familiar song has the ability to transport you back to a particular time and conjure a specific set of emotions. Whatever he’s been exploring over the past few years pays off here. Song to Song is far from his strongest film, but it’s his best and most exciting work since The Tree of Life.
    • 60

      We Got This Covered

      Song To Song is one of the more accessible Malick films as of late, succeeding largely in part thanks to a cast who plays their dramatic beats like poetry in motion.
    • 58

      IndieWire

      There’s plenty of intrigue to the dissonance of a hard-rock lifestyle and Malick’s gentle touch, but much of the movie’s potential is overshadowed by the impulses of a director unwilling to get there.
    • 50

      The Playlist

      Those impatient with Malick’s cyclical fixations will easily find themselves worn out by Song To Song especially in the enervating third act that essentially repeats the entire movie and its theme exhaustingly.
    • 40

      Variety

      Song to Song finds the maestro in broken-record mode, rehashing more or less the same themes against the backdrop of the Austin music scene — merely the latest borderline-awful Malick movie that risks to undermine the genius and mystery of his best work.
    • 40

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Ersatz local color aside, suffice to say that Song to Song is not designed to win back onetime admirers who felt Malick's To the Wonder and Knight of Cups drowned in their own navels. Though offering the occasional radiant moment (usually involving scenery), it is of a piece with those films.

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