Review of Days of Heaven (1978) by Dan D — 19 Mar 2011
Worth seeing a 1000 times over.
The lack of dialogue and the abnegation of a conventional story lifts up the film far above the average Hollywood fare to a cinema where dialogue is muted by sounds and visual splendour. Malick's celluloid poetry enmeshes nature with human actions that seem to be out of synchrony (as it is in "The Thin Red Line" as well) not far removed from derelict spaceship of Tarkovsky's "Solaris", the visual violence of Parajanov's "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" or the flowers in a otherwise barren landscape of Kozintsev's "King Lear".
This review of Days of Heaven (1978) was written by Dan D on 19 Mar 2011.
Days of Heaven has generally received very positive reviews.
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