Review of Song to Song (2017) by Jennykat570 — 23 Jun 2017

Pretentious, promiscuous Austin scenesters pair up, cheat on each other, take drugs, ramble endlessly about wanting to "be free" and "try everything" (as though these weren't already overworked cliches 50 years ago), and ultimately realize that, hey, doing all the above isn't really a very fulfilling lifestyle. WHOA DEEP STUFF THERE MALICK. Meanwhile the camera pads out the runtime with screen saver nature footage and about 45 minutes worth of people staring dully out of windows, which I'm pretty sure Terrence Malick insists on as a contractual requirement in all his movies.

Overall it's very very slow, very dull, and nowhere near as profound as it pretends to be (when you dig past the slick surface it's actually a very low-rent, trashy storyline worthy of a Skinemax direct-to-TV special). I'm only giving it a couple points because the cast was very attractive and the cinematography was pretty great, so at least you have something nice to look at as you watch these self-absorbed hipsters flail around idiotically (sometimes quite literally) for what seems like 5 hours.