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Days of Heaven

USA, 1978, 94 min
Director: Terrence Malick
Cast:Richard Gere, Brooke Adams and Sam Shepard

 Special  festival event  — the first time in Latvia you will be able to watch the original director сut version of the film "Days of Heaven".  This powerful, majestic film featuring  grandiose music by Ennio Morricone ,  is still considered an unsurpassed masterpiece.

 It is set in 1916, with some of the US feverishly excited about the fortunes still to be made in the vast swathes of still unexploited farmland and also aware of the looming inevitability of getting involved in the European war. Three drifters from Chicago arrive in the Texas panhandle in the north of the state, hoping to get seasonal farm labouring work.

The trio fetch up on a giant estate owned by one of the state’s richest men, a melancholy and refined figure; he notices Abby and takes a diffident, gentlemanly shine to her.

 When Bill and Abby discover that the farmer is seriously ill and

has only got a year left to live they decide that Abby will accept his wedding proposal in order to make some

benefit out of the situation. When the expected death fails to come, jealousy and impatience are slowly setting

in and accidents become eventually inevitable.

 Is an essay on loneliness, a melancholy poem on loss and love, a daring experiment in storytelling and nothing less than a powerful declaration of devotion to art itself.

 A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish fire – Malick captures it all with dreamlike authenticity, creating a timeless American idyll that is also a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labour.  

“Days of Heaven” turned out to be one the most beautiful films ever to be featured on the silver screen, earning Malick the highest recognition in Cannes and One of the most critically acclaimed films of all time.

 One-of-a-kind filmmaker-philosopher Terrence Malick has created some of the most visually arresting films of the last century, and his glorious period tragedy Days of Heaven, featuring Oscar-winning cinematography by Nestor Almendros, stands out among them.

Original Language: English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD6kmfufx_g&t=5s