With the Berlin International Film Festival premiere less than a week away — the movie will first screen for press on Sunday, February 8th — more and more details are being rolled out about Terrence Malick‘s "Knight Of Cups." Over the weekend, producers described the latest from Malick as a “stream-of-consciousness film,” which sounds about right. But there is a plot of sorts, hazy as it is, with the director tackling Hollywood and celebrity excess, with of course, lots of golden hour horizon gazing. And after the somewhat more esoteric short synopsis, a much longer one has been unveiled, painting a clearer picture about the movie. Here you go:
So, is this a big long supercut of Christian Bale trying to reconcile a life of beauty and women everywhere with the spiritual and soulful? Sounds like it, but let’s hope there’s more thematic subtext than aren’t-material-things-and-casual-sex-totally-empty. At least Malick will keep things relatively brief — the official runtime for the flick is 118 minutes, making it his second movie in a row under two hours, following "To The Wonder."
