Review of Days of Heaven (1978) by Hanna K — 28 Sep 2008
Terrence Malick's, Days of Heaven is exquisite. An Andrew Wyeth painting brought to life. The film relies heavily on it's lighting composition filling our senses with honey. The golden hues suggests the heavenly presence of a paradise; a paradise lost.
Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, and Sam Sheppard play the main leads and with great appeal. The film is most handsome as are the actors. Malick captures the beauty of the Texas Panhandle with comforting silence. Linda Manz plays Gere's sister and narrates the film with a heavy North Eastern dialect. She tells the prophecy of the coming events and it is beautifully and hauntingly captured.
The film is set in the 1930's depression era where Two Lovers and a sibling jump a train to the Texas Panhandle wheat fields to escape their past in Chicago.
One of the most lovely films of the Twentieth Century.
This review of Days of Heaven (1978) was written by Hanna K on 28 Sep 2008.
Days of Heaven has generally received very positive reviews.
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