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CANNES, France — In "The Tree of Life," a cosmic head movie of the most ambitious order, Terrence Malick reaches high, his ecstatic camera and thoughts soaring.
Loosely adapting its ideas about post-mortem consciousness from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the film imagines death as "the ultimate trip," as one of the characters puts it, echoing the slogan for Stanley Kubrick's quintessential head movie, "2001: A Space Odyssey".
But her inspiration sits like a dead weight behind the button-pushing, coded direction of Jason Reitman, who turns it into a Mr. Potato Head movie: he sticks traits on typecast bodies to fabricate characters to his needs, and he shoots the movie to match, with short clip-like scenes or shots that insert and highlight these traits.
It will not convince head movie executives to bankroll films that tell the unique stories of minorities outside the lens of White filmmakers and executives.
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Shot by Ben Wright over the course of a single day, here is the apotheosis of the talking-head movie, made up entirely of seven long, static takes of Mr. Zizek seated in front of a bookshelf.
"I was making the Talking Heads movie while going through this hideous experience," he said.
I had had the idea for it, I think, back in '95, when I was writing the "Beavis and Butt-Head" movie, and I had the idea and just kind of jotted it down.
But its humor, especially for head-movie fans, has always been in its somber, tabloid-style hyperbole.
Salt (2006, 2009), Cutting and Armstrong (2018), and Cutting et al. (2012) have shown that the size of the character's head in movie frames has increased in movies from the 1910s to 2010.
But Mr. Seidl has done something that sits in your head; his movie feels both flamboyant and deadpan.
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