Terrence Malick directed and wrote the winner film of the Palme d’Or this year at the Cannes Film Festival. In the American drama are starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastian. It presents the meaning of life through the eyes of a Texas family.
"Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation...while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" With this question from the Book of Job begins the film.
Mrs. and Mr. O’Brien (Jessica Chastian and Brad Pitt) receive a very sad news about the death of their 19 years old son. From that moment, the family is thrown into a world of grief.
Jack O'Brien (Sean Penn) has a modern life and he is an architect. On the phone with his father, he says that he thinks about his dead brother every day.
Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
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June 2011
