![]() ![]() I’m not entirely sure who Cate Blanchett is supposed to be, but she gets involved with Ryan Gosling at one point. ![]() Natalie Portman plays a waitress who has an affair with Fassbender. Rooney Mara plays a woman in love with two men, a musician played by Ryan Gosling and a producer played by Michael Fassbender. Nevertheless, here we are, at long last: “Song to Song,” a romantic drama set against the backdrop of the Austin pop scene, is the first Malick film I’ve watched where the dots never came together to form a legible image. ![]() Even at its most obtuse, Malick’s work never plays by commercial cinema's rules, coming at characterization and story from odd angles when it isn’t chasing the ineffable, as his camera chased a butterfly in “ The Tree of Life.” The actor and filmmaker Tim Blake Nelson, who had a small role in Malick's epic 1998 war poem " The Thin Red Line," said the difference between Malick and most other filmmakers is "the difference between Seurat painting with dots and Cezanne, who's a more painterly painter." I love that after 44 years of feature filmmaking, his style is still an issue. ![]()
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