Cate Blanchett as: Nancy

Directed by: Terrence Malick
Selected Cast: Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Antonio Banderas, Imogen Poots, Isabel Lucas
Written by: Terrence Malick
Release Year: 2015
Genre: Drama | Romance
MPAA Rating: R

 

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Rick is a slave to the Hollywood system. He is addicted to success but simultaneously despairs at the emptiness of his life. A screenwriter living in LA, he tries to make sense of the strange events occurring around him.

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Quotes from Cate Blanchett

• “I’d just recently come from doing a little bit on a Terrence Malick film and he was really interested in the actors having earwigs in. Obviously Terry writes reams and reams of poetry, and you never know whether it’s going to be in the film or not in the film. So I had him in my ear reading Heidegger and bits and snatches of things. And so I’d be saying – I’d be like George Bush during the presidential debates – I’d be saying Terry’s lines to Christian [Bale]. And then, ‘Sorry, what was that Terry?” (ScreenCrush, May 2017)

Quotes from Others

• Emmanuel Lubezki:
  — “That was incredible for me and in a way very experimental. Terry came to me and he said, “Chivo, please don’t read the script.” The script was very, very long. He had probably 400 pages, or six [hundred] or five [hundred], I don’t know. He’s a very prolific writer. He said, “I would like you not to read the script and approach the scenes a little but like a documentary filmmaker, but it’s not a documentary filmmaker that is documenting the external.” He wanted me to document this as if it was somebody’s memory. That’s it, we never talked about anything else. The movie wanted to be very fragmented and wanted to feel a little but like a memory, like an experiential movie. Like the zigzagging, he wanted to feel the zigzagging of being there and remembering something, how I’m talking to you but at the same time I’m looking at my daughter’s bedroom and I’m looking at the light in the hallway as I walk around. It’s how we are in one place, but the reality can be almost cubist as you’re living it. That’s the way I wanted the movie to feel.”

Trivia & Facts

• Filmed in Germany.
• The film premiered In Competition at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival on 8 February 2015.
• The film was filmed in 2012 and was in a two-year post production stage.
• This was filmed back to back with Song to Song (2017) where Cate Blanchett also had a role.
• While the full screenplay was shown to very few actors, Terrence Malick would write multiple pages of dialogue for some of the actors and encouraged them to use whatever part of the dialogue they wanted.