Days of Heaven

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Days of Heaven

PG

1978

1h 35m

Drama

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A screen poem about life in America at the turn of the century. A story of love and murder told through the voice of a child and expressive images of nature in 1916. A steelworker flees Chicago after a fight with his boss; he takes his little sister and girlfriend with him.

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Illuminated by magic hour glow and wistful performances, Days of Heaven is a visual masterpiece that finds eloquent poetry in its spare scenario.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

02/02/2024

5/5

The plague of locusts scene, achieved by dumping thousands of peanut shells from a helicopter and playing the eventual footage backwards, is a knockout.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

10/19/2023

4/4

Terrence Malick’s ethereal, windswept ballad of love, lust, and nature’s wrath remains an otherworldly triumph.

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David Sexton

London Evening Standard

09/02/2011

5/5

Simply one of the most ravishing films ever made, luminous in a way that no other movie has been.

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Julian Singleton

Cinapse

Jul 11

No film of Terrence Malick’s reflects this unbreakable bond between humans and nature more than Days of Heaven.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

11/08/2024

7/10

It ends as vaguely as it begins, yet with a distinct sense of satisfaction and unexplainable resoluteness (perhaps these characters’ stories are entirely resolved), as if something profound has unfolded amid the odd plainness of it all.

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Ray Pride

Newcity

07/04/2024

10/10

Malick’s haunting, painterly variation on Biblical stories in the wheat fields of the Texas panhandle just before the First World War is a voluptuous masterpiece, an equation of ironies. Drawn with myth’s simplicity.

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Jakub V

@SirJames Dec 15

Eart, fire, air, water. One of the best movies ever made. It has everything.

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Patrick S

@PatrickStruik Dec 13

An absolute masterpiece.

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Richard W

@rdwoolf Sep 25

Another long and drawn out story from Terrence Malick. it looks extremely good. But it's hard to get through without becoming distracted. Still, it's 100 times better than Tree of Life.

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STEVEN M

Aug 30

Terrance Malik makes everything big on this film. The bridge crossing is iconic.

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Blobbo X

@Blobbo Jul 8

Visually is masterpiece, think Blobbo.

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Julian Rex M

@Julian_M May 30

Perhaps ill-served by Billy Weber's choppy editing, Days of Heaven nonetheless proves to be a beautifully photographed and aptly acted exploration of love, manipulation, death, and what comes after against an arresting backdrop of the post-Leone west.

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Synopsis

A screen poem about life in America at the turn of the century. A story of love and murder told through the voice of a child and expressive images of nature in 1916. A steelworker flees Chicago after a fight with his boss; he takes his little sister and girlfriend with him.

Director: Terrence Malick
Producer: Bert Schneider, Harold Schneider
Screenwriter: Terrence Malick
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 1, 1978, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 22, 2016
Runtime: 1h 35m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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