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16Oct2009

Terrence Malick's 'Tree of Life' Pruned for 2009

DateFriday, October 16, 2009 at 2:22PM
It almost had to happen this way, but Anne Thompson at Indiwire made it official yesterday: The new Terrence Malick film, The Tree of Life has been scrapped from this year's list of Oscar hopefuls, Instead, the project that has literally been brewing for 30 years might be headed to Cannes next May.

Malick walks to the beat of his own drum, and it's a painfully slow beat. The Thin Red Line was his first film in 20 years, and he's only made one (The New World) in the decade since. Thompson reports that the editing process is still going on, so Apparition - which picked up the distribution rights a couple months ago or so - has erased the film's tentative December 25th arrival.

The movie stars Brad Pitt, as the father of a young boy who experiences the loss of innocence. That boy grows up to be a character played by Sean Penn, struggling for truth in the modern world. and has been described as "a cosmic epic, a hymn to life." Take that, Christopher Nolan's "contemporary sci-fi actioner set within in the architecture of the mind"!

Bob Bearney from Apparition acknowledged this week that he hasn't seen the film yet nor does he know exactly when it will be ready.

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