Brad Pitt pictured above at 2011 Cannes International Film Festival was quick to defend his director,Terrence Malick, over his decision to stay away from his own film premiere at the Cannes Film Festival today. Malick’s much anticipated new movie, ‘The Tree of Life,’ was met with a scattering of “harsh, prolonged boos” after its first press screening.
The film is supposed to tell the story of a Texas boy’s journey from the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as a ‘lost soul in the modern world’, and his quest to regain meaning in life.
Terrence Malick has a habit of remaining out of sight for his film premieres and was noticeably absent from the movie’s eagerly awaited debut screening. It is only the press-shy director’s fifth film in nearly 40 years and his first at Cannes since 1979’s ‘Days of Heaven.’ Malick also failed to attend the post-screening press conference, leaving producer Sarah Green and Brad Pitt to face the critics.
The 47-year-old actor defended the director’s attitude towards attending his own premieres, saying, “I don’t know why it’s accepted that people who make things in our business are then expected to sell them, and I don’t think that computes with him.” “It is an odd thing for an artist to start something and then be salesman”.
Much of the film’s negative criticism has been aimed at Malick’s “cosmic sequences” that last for 15 minutes or more without any dialogue or even a human face being seen.
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