Terrence Malick's 1978 masterpiece is a fantastically rewarding experience, and it contains ideas and themes that would re-emerge in The Tree of LifeThis was the film that Terrence Malick made in 1978 before heading off for his 20-year sabbatical: an inspired American pastoral, perhaps inspired by Henry James's The Wings of the Dove. In the early years of the 20th century, Richard Gere and Brooke Adams are Bill and A…
