I love Terrence Malick as much as the next guy, but come on: Can we just get The Tree of Life over with, already? Until the film premieres next month at Cannes (and opens shortly after in the U.S.), we're stuck struggling through a vortex of breathless hype and marketing that confounds at best and annoys at worst. Like if I have to see that baby's foot one more time... and now in French?
What's branded as a new Cannes trailer is making the rounds today, meaning we get all the brooding, pensive, ethereal, really really serious quick-cuts as before with a) a slightly more straightforward chronology and b) random French-language overdubs. Even before today I felt like I was being sold perfume, but this is just uncanny. And it kind of has me worried. Just saying.
Meanwhile, anyone care to translate?