CANNES, France - Terrence Malick respected both his public and a professional reputation at the Cannes Film Festival Monday, remaining out of sight, the first time a film that leaves crowds buzzing on its thematic scope, emotional depth and visual magnitude.
The notoriously press-shy Malick was nowhere to be seen after "the tree of life," both anticipated epic drama of the writer-director of creation, and place a family in this document, a screening for critics and reporters in advance its first official Festival.
The film with Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain attract a dissemination of harsh and prolonged boos, responded with enthusiastic applause from others at the press screening.
"The tree of life" is only Malick fifth film in a career of almost 40 years and his first since "Days of Heaven of 1979" Cannes Festival, which he won a directing award of the festival.
Malick has remained behind the scenes for his subsequent films, "The Thin Red Line of 1998" and "The New World of 2005", and he has ignored the Cannes press conference that followed the screening of Monday, leaving PittChastain and its producers to deal with journalists.
The producer "Mr. Malick is very shy, and I would say that, in my view, that his work speaks for itself," Sarah Green said.
Pitt compared the attitude of the Malick to the broadcast of a film to the construction of a House - Builder should then not sell.
"I don't know why it is accepted that people who do things in our company are then expected to sell, and I do not think that calculates with him," said Pitt. "He wants to focus on the making of it, not the real estate, sale of real estate." It is a strange thing for an artist to start something and then be seller. ?
Organizers of Cannes had hoped to debut the film a year ago, but he was not ready in time.
"The tree of life" stars Pitt as a magnet, but sometimes brutally stern father with Chastain wife that stands as a figure of grace for their three confused, intimidated son. Penn plays a man grown, reflecting on the people and moments that have shaped his eldest son.
The richly personal drama is recounted in a broad scope of Impressionist exchanges and images: views breathtaking of the creation of the universe of key scenes in the age of the dinosaurs to tender and terrifying moments families.
Some at the Cannes Festival held all deeply moving. Others said Malick went on top, as certain sequences play Cosmic on during 15 minutes or more without a human face to see.
The range of reactions might be appropriate while Malick.
"One of the reasons that Terry may refrain from forums like this is that he wants to keep standing on its own work." It does not mean what he is talking about or whether or not it is autobiographical, ", said producer Bill Pohlad." "He wants just the audience to make their own thing to it..., as opposed to her interpreting he or she verbalize.".
