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Starring:
Braydon Denney, Brit Marling, Diane Kruger, Jason Clarke, Wes Bentley
Summary:
The story of Abraham Lincoln's childhood in the harsh wilderness of Indiana and the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked him forever and the two women who guided him to immortality.
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Nov 7, 2014
RogerEbert.com
Nov 7, 2014
Movie Nation
Jan 6, 2015
It’s a bit too spare and Malik-like for its own good. But the incessant voice-over, another Malick trademark, here makes the whole enterprise feel overheard, a story constructed from memory where the words are just ways of underlining what we would come to know about Lincoln the man based on Lincoln the boy.
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 21, 2014
Directed by Terrence Malick's editor and protégé, A.J. Edwards, The Better Angels abounds with Malick-ian moments: upward-pointing cameras capturing bodies wheeling through fields, plaintive voice-overs punctuated by Jew's harp and birdsong, a tendency to drift toward the sky and its moody tableau of clouds.
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Nov 13, 2014
Nov 23, 2016
Watched at home on amazon prime. Movie is B&W; talking is minimal. It was slow moving, but it gave me a sense of how it may have been for Lincoln as a kid. The sounds of nature were everywhere and very pleasant to hear.
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