Valerie Chiang
10Jan12
you mean nestor almendros is no amateur!
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Daniel Montiel
9Feb12
One of the most beautiful films i have ever seen, this little tale works as an intimate and big scaled mirror of changing times by progress and philosophy and shows Malick usual interests binded by a more tighter and more focused story.
Michael Convery
19Jan12
Few films can rival Days of Heaven in terms of beauty on a shot by shot basis. The style creates a double sense of a national landscape painting and an intimate diary of moments.
Heikan
8Jan12
Any amateur filmmaker will tell you the same thing: sunset is a fucking bitch. If you use it well it can provide a beautiful source of light, but for a short period of time so you have to make the most of it. Lucky for everybody, Malick is no goddamn amateur. The beauty of the images evoke a magic spell into the characters, making them all look righteous, which is an interesting approach to a love triangle story.
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Joshua Dysart
3Jan12
A movie that gives total preference to the emotion of imagery. An exercise in feeling & seeing so successful it elevated Terrence Malick into the ranks of visual storytellers like Tarkovski and Kurosawa. Had this, Malick's second feature, been his last, he'd still be known as one of the most important American Directors of all time.
Valerie Chiang
28Dec11
man what a shame. if the first half of the movie were better, i'd definitely give this movie 5 stars. none of the characters were completely developed. a whole bunch of sitting around and doing nothing. but the cinematography, the music...they were breathtaking. and some scenes were just so beautiful.
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Pamastrike
28Dec11
I have the same problem with this film. Everything happens so fast, whats the rush? In one shot they are talking in the next they are marry, wtf? why? why? why?
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Nelson Núñez
27Dec11
El argumento es sencillo, rozando lo elemental, pero las imágenes son cautivantes, poderosas y orgánicas sin rayar, afortunadamente, en el preciosismo. La fotografía de Néstor Almendros y Haskell Wexler es verdaderamente soberbia...toda una apología de la hora mágica.
Howard Orr
26Dec11
A reverie of a film, dependent on its glorious images and wonderful editing for its effect. But what images, and what editing...
Patrick Humphreys
22Dec11
I don't believe in listing or ranking films. I believe that all films are more or less equal; that they all have qualities that will evoke emotion in the viewer, and that to declare one film better than another is a pointless endeavor. However, if I DID, this would be The Greatest Film of All Time.
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LifeofFiction
9Dec11
It exudes brilliance in cinematography and you could sit through the entire film silently and still love every minute of it.
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MGeo
17Nov11
...my god. I had never seen a Terrence Malick film before this, but I was dumbfounded by how beautiful and gorgeous it was. It was as if time stood still when I watching this and I was wading through an endless dream. Out of the five films Malick has made, I can only see one and justifiably call him one of my favorite filmmakers of all time on that basis (even though I will watch everything else he makes).
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Hellshocked
3Nov11
Malick's delicate, ephemeral elegy to paradise lost is a dream of a film in more ways than one. Beyond the breathtaking photography, evocative score, sublime touches of the surreal and hypnotic editing it is Linda's detatched voiceover, at once all-knowing and vulnerable, that haunts long after the curtain has fallen.
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trolley freak
5Oct11
Maverick director Malick's second film has a high reputation for its visual beauty and it certainly lives up to it. The potentially melodramatic story is about a man on the run with his girlfriend and sister. They find work on a Texas farm and when the owner falls in love with the girlfriend the elements are in place for a love triangle. Influenced by Murnau's Sunrise, this compelling film plays like a visual poem...
ramosbarajas
28Sep11
Obviously it has great cinematography, but I just didn't feel as involved as I thought I would be. I do appreciate the ethereal idyllic setting. The mood was perfect. I feel the second act was the strongest part of the film...
elcastillo
25Sep11
Indeed, great photography, but for me the 'story' didn't quite grabbed me. It's more a contemplative film than entertaining. I'm not against that, but I was expecting a better ending.
William Low
17Sep11
A very simple and dramatic story, but created in amazing visual style as Malick's trademark. Its true as people said that the images,more than the story of Malick's film that will stick and haunt our mind. Simply beautiful :)
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Llawrence
13Sep11
Terrbly overrated film. Pretty images,landscapes and sunsets aren't enough for me. Most people think it's great art to film rare sunsets and bugs on leafs. No, it's not art. It is a fun film, but on the level of a nature film for me.It was interesting to see how terrible is Gere again. Shepard is a wonderful actor, natural and never see him 'acting'.
Josh Hansen
13Aug11
Days of Heaven is extraordinary in its beautiful, lyrical simplicity. I love it not only for its much-acclaimed cinematography, but for its mythic and elemental feel.
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Bleu Poster
20Jul11
Man of nature finds reasons to be unhappy...both Bill and the farmer give up the happiness they have...their greed and jealousy brings infernal fire to the fields of heaven.
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