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The New World
2005
The New World is an epic adventure set amid the encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown settlement in 1607. Inspired by the legend of John Smith and Pocahontas, acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick transforms this classic story into a sweeping exploration of love, loss and .. Read more
| Starring | Colin Farrell, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, August Schellenberg |
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| Director | Terrence Malick |
| Run time | 150 mins |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Critics' reviews (4)
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Rapturously beautiful... The entire meaning of the film is conveyed in a single sublime edit that joins a shot of the grubby settlement as it looks from outside its walls -- and framed inside an open door -- with its mirror image
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Shot almost entirely in natural light with a moving camera, the film is at once lively and meditative... It mixes carefully researched ethnographic detail with wildly romantic imagining
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51 out of 63 people found this review helpful
Delirious journey into the unknown
This movie is like no other I have seen for a long time.
Mesmerizing, dreamy, terrifying and silent all at once. The director tries to re-create how the new world might have felt before it became "America", doing away with most preconceptions of the early settlement history.
For most of the time, this means feeling overwhelmed by the sensual beauty and strangeness of the new place. There are many moments when the action goes into one direction, but the camera goes into another: for example, a fighting scene cut through with images of decaying wood.
It's all like a stream of consciousness that is often interrupted, giving a sense of disorientation, as if one was watching it in a delirious state.
Throughout, the movie reflects on language, speaking in strange tongues, and naming – among other things by refusing to speak the name "Pocahontas" even once, as any other less imaginative movie would have done.
An unforgettable movie. -
Most recent members' review
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7 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Bewildered!
From time to time some directors need to be reminded that most humans are interested in intelligible stories.
They always have been, It's one of the things which set us apart from the beasts.
Now if it wasn't enough for the incredible historical facts to speak for themselves in this instance I'm pretty surprised. However, they weren't allowed to speak for themselves because what we got was a quazi-artistic pretentious hollow effort which was a fantastic let down.
I got friends round, the projector and big screen out and within 30 minutes half of us were asleep. -
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Golden Door
- 27 Jun 2007
Released as 'Nuovomundo' in its native Italy - 'The New World' is taken, right? - Golden Door is the second film to reach these shores by Emanuele Crialese, the writer-director of Respiro. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, it's a film about a family of illiterate Sicilian peasants coming to America, spurred on by doctored photographs of money growing on trees and chickens the size of donkeys. They find passage on a great steam ship. Men and women are immediately separated, and such is... Read more
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