Review of Knight of Cups (2015) by Tim C — 06 Apr 2016

Again one of those polarizing films from the master of the meditative filmic mood Terrance Mallick, ducking in LA and Vegas for his latest opus "focusing" around a successful actor who has lost himself in the lifestyle in Hollywood and has trouble connecting to family, lovers and life in general and just floats around just simply existing.

As tends to be the case with the maestro directors, he has somehow gathered quite the cast from Portman, Bale, Blanchett, Bentley, and Dennehy to simply walk amongst Chevo Luebeski's gorgeous as always cinematography and simply inner monologue for the majority of the proceedings.

Take away the technical showcase onhand yet again from Chevo, the blending of the subject and filmmaker just comes across as uber pretentious making the focus the woe as me actor type balancing between the meaning of exitence amongst all the superficialness of Holllywood which has been broached alot more engagingly that this.

Outside of capturing the normal feel of his more recent work and again the cinematography porn on display, this one is a pretentious flop :(.