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| The New World |
A profound achievement of directorial vision, Terence Malick's (
Badlands,
The Thin Red Line) rapturously romantic and haunting film imagines how two civilizations met and began to communicate.
Telling the story of Pocahontas (Q'Orianka Kilcher), the film's central insight is that she, even more than the English colonists, was in a very real sense the first American.
Through elliptical and seemingly oblique methods, Malick forges moments of staggering emotional power; moments of greatness, of incalculable historical importance and tragedy. Stars Colin Farrell and Christian Bale.
'Malick brings his film very close to a state of grace' Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone
