Very few contemporary directors manage to be as brave and stylish as Terrence Malick. Knight of Cups (2015) is one of its bravest movies, a mesmerizing tour de force on cinematography, camera work and the soundtrack, uuuhhh it will stick into your mind for a while.
It's by all means not for all audiences, slow paced, dream like movie that invites oneself to tune into a completely immersive experience of cinema art. This immersion may happen or not, movie critics were divided, some loved, some hated.
Little White Lies magazine, just loved it, comparing it to Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty: ""When the soul sees a beautiful woman or a man, it remembers the beauty it used to know in heaven." Malick's mastery over language is transcendent. He attaches the syntax of the heavens to earthly pursuits. In these elevated terms, it is understandable that a man could confuse sensual pleasures for something more profound. A cynic might say that Malick has filtered the objectification of women through art-house sensibilities, but he is a step ahead. This is the story of a man whose drug of choice is women. The way he sees them is necessarily at a distance. This is his whole issue."
At IMDb the rating is quite low. I gave a 8 out of 10 grade for this one, cause there is true unique art on it. Im sure that in the future, movie historians will be writing about it.
But again, be aware, this is a veryyyy different movie. Even more for those who are not used to Malick's way of doing.
The soundtrack main theme is simple a blast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmxzE72KQk
It's by all means not for all audiences, slow paced, dream like movie that invites oneself to tune into a completely immersive experience of cinema art. This immersion may happen or not, movie critics were divided, some loved, some hated.
Little White Lies magazine, just loved it, comparing it to Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty: ""When the soul sees a beautiful woman or a man, it remembers the beauty it used to know in heaven." Malick's mastery over language is transcendent. He attaches the syntax of the heavens to earthly pursuits. In these elevated terms, it is understandable that a man could confuse sensual pleasures for something more profound. A cynic might say that Malick has filtered the objectification of women through art-house sensibilities, but he is a step ahead. This is the story of a man whose drug of choice is women. The way he sees them is necessarily at a distance. This is his whole issue."
At IMDb the rating is quite low. I gave a 8 out of 10 grade for this one, cause there is true unique art on it. Im sure that in the future, movie historians will be writing about it.
But again, be aware, this is a veryyyy different movie. Even more for those who are not used to Malick's way of doing.
The soundtrack main theme is simple a blast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmxzE72KQk