Days of Heaven

In the 1910s, an impulsive labourer (Richard Gere), his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and her younger sister (Linda Manz) flee Chicago for the vast wheat fields of Texas, dreaming of a new life. They pretend to be siblings and end up infiltrating the life of a lonely, sick farmer (Sam Shepard). Persuaded by her boyfriend to marry the farmer in order to inherit his fortune, the young woman enters into a dangerous game and a love triangle that leads them into a spiral of tragedy. With hypnotic, Oscar-winning photography and few dialogues, Terrence Malick paints a visual poem, awarded at Cannes, about desire, betrayal and the ephemerality of human happiness.

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