Movie: The Tree of Life

Director Terrence Malick's cosmic vision is an unashamedly epic reflection on love and loss, nature and grace, the voice of sin and the call of beauty.

Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick's Cannes 2011 offering Terrence Malick's mad and magnificent film descends slowly, like some sort of prototypical spaceship: it's a cosmic-interior epic of vainglorious proportions, a rebuke to realism, a disavowal of irony and comedy, a meditation on memory, and a gasp of horror and awe at the mysterious inevitability of loving, and losing those we love.

Production year: 2011 Country: USA Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 138 mins Directors: Terrence Malick Cast: Brad Pitt, Dalip Singh, Fiona Shaw, Hunter McCracken, Jackson Hurst, Jessica Chastain, Joanna Going, Kari Matchett, Laramie Eppler, Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan