
Variety
Written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, pic is his first feature and it's an impressive debut.
Full reviewThis American classic was Terrence Malick's first film, casting a young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek in career-defining roles.
Set in 1959, in Fort Dupre, South Dakota, this is a darkly comic drama about the tempestuous relationship between a 25-year-old garbageman (Sheen) and a impressionable 15-year-old girl (Spacek). Together they live a romanticised lifestyle, on the run from the lam after shooting the girl's father. Their killing spree takes them across the midwest; across the badlands.
LessWritten, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, pic is his first feature and it's an impressive debut.
Full reviewThe unique, lilting music would subsequently crop up in True Romance, though Tarantino’s generation has yet to dethrone Badlands as the most haunting of all couple-on-the-run movies.
Full reviewThe movie is very reserved in its attitude toward the characters. It observes them, most of the time, dispassionately.
Full reviewAchingly evocative of a time when Hollywood had the courage to invest in complex and morally ambiguous films and an indisputable masterpiece of American cinema.
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