Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life has been critically adored, though its left many scratching their heads. It’s a wildly ambitious film with a fractured narrative and many unexplained images. It’s also beautiful, compelling and emotional. (Click here to see Matt Semansky’s original review.)
On this podcast The Coast film writers try to get to grips with The Tree of Life‘s frustrations, contradictions and successes.
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This article appears in Jul 7-13, 2011.