Poster For Terrence Malick’s Tree Of Life Spotted At The American Film Market

Well, with the American Film Market kicking off today, a cavalcade of various new posters have been revealed.

However, none may be for a more hotly anticipated film than Terrence Malick’s Tree Of Life.

Steve “Frosty” Weintraub over at Collider has taken pictures of some brand new sales art for the massively anticipated film, and I do have to say, while it looks like a weird IMAX film you would see at your local museum, that kind of works for some reason.   I love the style of the bottom two-thirds of the poster, and while the top third looks like a weird Skyline reject, I do really dig this poster.

However, it won’t be the last we hear or see of the film.   It’s set to see its premiere in just a matter of seven months (yes, I’m keeping track), and with Malick in the middle of shooting his next film, we may not be very far off from having a pair of Malick films just a few years apart.

And that’s a world I can’t wait to live in.

The film hits on May 27, 2011.   Here’s the film’s synopsis, which was apparently given along with this poster:

From the Desk of Terrence Malick’¦.

We trace the evolution of an eleven-year-old boy in the Midwest, JACK, one of three brothers.   At first all seems marvelous to the child.   He sees as his mother does with the eyes of his soul.   She represents the way of love and mercy, where the father tries to teach his son the world’s way of putting oneself first.   Each parent contends for his allegiance, and Jack must reconcile their claims.   The picture darkens as he has his first glimpses of sickness, suffering and death.   The world, once a thing of glory, becomes a labyrinth.

From this story is that of adult Jack, a lost soul in a modern world, seeking to discover amid the changing scenes of time that which does not change: the eternal scheme of which we are a part.   When he sees all that has gone into our world’s preparation, each thing appears a miracle’”precious, incomparable.   Jack, with his new understanding, is able to forgive his father and take his first steps on the path of life.

The story ends in hope, acknowledging the beauty and joy in all things, in the everyday and above all in the family’”our first school’”the only place that most of us learn the truth about the world and ourselves, or discover life’s single most important lesson, of unselfish love.

Source: Collider