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Burning Love on the Great Plains in 1959!
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
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Badlands
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Alternative Titles
Malas tierras, Пустоши, La rabbia giovane, Terra de Ninguém, Det grymma landet, 황무지, 恶土, 不毛之地, Qanlı Torpaq, Badlands - Zerschossene Träume, La Balade sauvage, Noivos Sangrentos, Zapadákov, 穷山恶水, שבילי הזעם, Kanlı Toprak, Sivár vidék, Опасни земи, Males terres, Безплідні землі, 地獄の逃避行, Đất Dữ, უდაბნო, Julma maa, 窮山惡水
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Intense violence and sexual transgression Moving relationship stories Humanity and the world around us Surreal and thought-provoking visions of life and death Gripping, intense violent crime Powerful poetic and passionate drama Emotional teen coming-of-age stories Humanity's odyssey: earth and beyond Show All…
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USA
New York Film Festival
27 Aug 1975
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Italy
Venice Film Festival
Theatrical
05 Jan 1974
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Brazil
24 Mar 1974
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USAPG
25 Apr 1975
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Ireland15
03 Jun 1975
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France12
05 Mar 1977
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Italy
01 Apr 1977
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Germany16
08 Nov 2017
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Netherlands6
Physical
23 Jan 2008
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Netherlands6
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Brazil
05 Jan 1974
- Theatrical
France
03 Jun 1975
- Theatrical12
Germany
01 Apr 1977
- Theatrical16
Ireland
25 Apr 1975
- Theatrical15
Italy
27 Aug 1975
- Premiere Venice Film Festival
05 Mar 1977
- Theatrical
Netherlands
23 Jan 2008
- Physical6 DVD
08 Nov 2017
- Theatrical6 Blu ray
USA
13 Oct 1973
- Premiere New York Film Festival
24 Mar 1974
- TheatricalPG New York City, New York
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“The film's tag line ("In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people") inspired the Zodiac Killer, who had been lying low for years, to write a letter to a newspaper denouncing their flippant attitude to violence in society by running such an ad.”
this man and his many hats made the zodiac killer come out of retirement and we should all be terrified
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the shot of martin sheen stepping on that cow was weirdly gorgeous. simple but so strange and memorable, which i can say about most of the shots. whole movie is a beauty to look at. i’ve heard Gassenhauer in three different movies just this year (priscilla, true romance, this) and the use of it here is so warm. funnier than i thought it’d be. sissy spacek amazing as always
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Sheen’s James Dean imitation is really great but the thing i love about Badlands the most is Spacek’s voiceover. Her voice lends the movie a dreamlike feel, there’s such a contrast between her tone and the violence we’re witnessing on screen.
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“Wait!” called Terence Malick. “You didn’t hear the last ingredient! A dearth of style and the sympathetic POV of a morally-accessible character as to not misrepresent any portrayals as glorification!“ But Oliver Stone was already out the door.
Wonderful. So warm and simple it feels like a movie I've known all my life. The tone and ease of a movie a teacher would've shown us in high school with the subject matter of a movie a teacher would've shown us in high school before being fired for something everybody heard rumblings about. Anything interesting I could say about this movie would be ruined if you ever found out I spent every four minutes saying "Badlands" with a Chet Haze-ian patois.
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93/100
"I'll kiss your ass if he don't look like James Dean."
Eden ripped to shreds. Terrence Malick's debut feature is an American dream in all its tranquility and outrage, contrasting the tedium of innocence with the rebellion of boundless sunsets and an eternal joyride of attachment. Kit and Holly were made for each other, as the saying goes, but that instant affection moves beyond love, instead speeding towards the resounding finality of damnation. Malick thrives in the visual construction of his worlds, expressing purity with the sight of beaming white short shorts and persuasive dread through a protective Father catching a glimpse of his worst nightmare in a mirror. Speeding cars feel less like a method of transportation and…
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This film has such a warm, open tone (brought on by those beautiful golden hues of the plains and the openness of the scenery) that the chilling, charismatic, and utterly delusional demeanor of Kit is that much more jarring. The narration by Sissy Spacek being so devoid of emotion also helps make the whole thing seem alien and distant. It's brilliant.
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Facts.
Holly is a naive, young girl. She has (/had) a dog. She is scared of being with Kit; she is scared of being without him. Kit is a lonely young man. He found a toaster. He is impulsive and charismatic and utterly insane. Badlands is all about the facts.
If I could ask Mr. Malick one question, it would be when facts ceased being sufficient to convey his vision. Badlands is an exceptional example of how fine a movie can be when it is straightforward, compelling, and 'easy' (which is a dirty word in some circles, apparently). This is not a dig against his emerging style as a purveyor of visualized emotion, but an appreciation of his skill at…
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“Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.”
―Flannery O'Connor
(A choice quote by Michael Almereyda in the Criterion booklet.)
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