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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 |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance |
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The New World
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 discovery, both a celebration and elegy of the America that was... and the America that was yet to come. Against the dramatic and historically rich backdrop of a pristine Eden inhabited by a great native civilisation, The New World is a dramatised tale of two strong-willed characters, a passionate and noble young native woman (QORIANKA KILCHER) and an ambitious soldier of fortune (COLIN FARRELL), who find themselves torn between the undeniable requirements of civic duty and the inescapable demands of the heart.
| Starring | Colin Farrell, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi, Raoul Trujillo, Christian Bale, Michael Greyeyes, David Thewlis |
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| Director | Terrence Malick |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 30 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 45 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 22 May 2006 Blu-ray: unknown Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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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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56 out of 68 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. -
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Utter tripe
I'm sorry but I have nothing good to say about this movie. It was turgid, dull and without direction. Colin Farrell has been in some bloomers in his short career and this was bad (though still Alexander takes the biscuit for worst turkey). Farrell's mumbled narration is irritating and nonsensical. It was a fast forward job at the end in the hope that something kicked off before it finished - it didn't. Worst film I've watched for a while.
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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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New World, The - BLU-RAY Version
In 1607, three ships sailed across the Atlantic to the shores of what became known as Jamestown, Virginia. The arrival of these Europeans changed forever, the history of the native people already living peacefully in this fertile country. Writer-director Terrence Malick, who has been waiting 25 ...
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The New World
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 ...
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