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FilmPG-132011

The Tree of Life

DramaFantasy

Directed by Terrence Malick

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. From TMDB

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The Tree of Life is a 2011 drama fantasy film, directed by Terrence Malick, starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Hunter McCracken.

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  • Lobinez @lobinez.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2026

    Spot the werewolf! I was today years old when I found out there's an actual werewolf in Eggers's *The Northman* movie during the Tree of Life scene, meaning that Amleth (the main character) does have some werewolf ancestry. He's actually an Úlfheðnar (Berserker warrior) in the movie.

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  • Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2026

    #Didyouknow If you mistakenly post the July 4th Ball photo on New Year's Day, all of your film friends notice and start a group chat to laugh at you, but who cares because they still think The Tree Of Life is good?

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  • PlanetGay 🌈 @planet-gay-comic.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 4, 2026

    A hidden, intimate extra scene from "The Tree of Life" story — not part of the film, but taken from the original comic. Watch the 12:20 min HD film: youtu.be/3NwjGlRMMxA #gayart #licking #LoveIsLove #threesome

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  • The Bulwark @thebulwark.comBluesky · Dec 16, 2024

    "Nickel Boys uses the first-person POV and the elliptical nature of the plotting to create a more dreamlike view of the world; this movie owes much more to Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life than to the PlayStation." A double review from Sonny Bunch:

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  • PlanetGay 🌈 @planet-gay-comic.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2025

    ⭐ “The Tree of Life” My new film project I'm working at The story takes place on Planet Gay, where once a year the great sacred race begins - Everything begins in the big Party Temple… 🏛🔥💖 Watch the current Planet Gay story "Anubis' Underworld": youtu.be/74eDKIBHbXI #gayart #LoveIsLove #LGBT

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2025

    Alexandre Desplat (with scenes from "The Beat That My Heart Skipped", "Lust, Caution", "The Tree of Life" and "Asteroid City" for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD

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  • PlanetGay 🌈 @planet-gay-comic.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2026

    A hidden, intimate extra scene from "The Tree of Life" story — not part of the film, but taken from the original comic. Watch the 12:20 min HD film: youtu.be/3NwjGlRMMxA #gayart #licking #LoveIsLove #threesome

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  • 𖤐 Bri 𖤐 @brianimator.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2025

    One of the best movies of the 21st century. It always blows my mind because it’s so beautiful, not just the cinematography but the score, the performances, the subject matter. Malick and his dreamy existential imagery. #filmsky My ★★★★★ review of The Tree of Life on @letterboxd: boxd.it/aMwZfd

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  • PlanetGay 🌈 @planet-gay-comic.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 5, 2026

    Leaving Eden ✨ The Big Party Event Watch the 8:13 HD Film: www.patreon.com/posts/154757... 🌲 The Tree of Life - Part Zero Once a year, a great celebration takes place on Planet Gay. During this night, the region gathers to celebrate — and to discover new connections.

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2024

    Alexandre Desplat (with scenes from "The Beat That My Heart Skipped", "Lust, Caution", "The Tree of Life" and "Asteroid City" for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD

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  • PlanetGay 🌈 @planet-gay-comic.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2026

    Working on the new Film ✨ The Big Party Event (The Tree of Life Zero) Visit my Patreon: www.patreon.com/PlanetGay #gayart #gayparty #gayritual

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  • PlanetGay 🌈 @planet-gay-comic.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

    Just an image from my current film project "The Tree of Life." #gqayart #LGBT #hotman #ai

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  • Keith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2025

    My favorite fantasy/sci-fi film is THE TREE OF LIFE.

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  • benji (moon’s dad) @benjiarmi.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2025

    Off to see The Tree of Life in theatres!!! It’s the first movie I ever went to alone and it’s the closest I’ve ever been to having a religious experience. Can’t wait to cry!!!

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  • Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 23, 2025

    "Nickel Boys" is the most experimental film to be nominated for Best Picture since "The Tree of Life." It's audacious yet confident, mysterious yet straightforward. My favorite film of the past year. From here on, I'm watching whatever RaMell Ross makes.

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 29, 2026

    #NowWatching THE TREE OF LIFE (2011). Director: Terrence Malick. Brad Pitt, Sean Penn. If you follow me, may be shocked to hear I thought this was insufferable. It's visually beautiful, though, & love Malick, so I'll give it another go & perhaps be less cranky. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 942

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  • Jeffrey Overstreet @overstreet.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 11, 2024

    FLOW is like if someone who grew up reading Richard Adams novels & watching Miyazaki saw Malick's THE TREE OF LIFE, was rocked by the dinosaur scene, and then rode that inspiration into making a singular animated film. I haven't been so enthralled by animation innovation since INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE.

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  • Corey Atad @coreyatad.comBluesky · Aug 25, 2025

    wrote up some of my mixed thoughts on The Tree of Life, a beautiful film that leaves me cold

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  • The Paris Theater - NYC @paristheaternyc.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2026

    Director Terrence Malick (BADLANDS, THE THIN RED LINE) pushes the coming-of-age story into transcendental territory with THE TREE OF LIFE. Don’t miss Malick’s 2011 drama, screening on 35mm as part of Big & Loud. Get tickets: paristheaternyc.com/film/the-tre...

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  • Mutual I'm Sure @mutualimsure.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2026

    Tonight's movie is The Tree of Life (2011) 🍿

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  • PINNLAND EMPIRE @pinnlandempire.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    “l noticed the power of this sort of like roving and mounting poetry in Tree of Life, probably my all-time favorite film” - Ramell Ross, @metrograph The Tree Of Life/Nickel Boys THREAD (1/3) #sidebyside www.pinnlandempire.com/2025/02/nick...

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  • The Paris Theater - NYC @paristheaternyc.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2026

    Starring Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, Terrence Malick’s THE TREE OF LIFE pushes the boundaries of the coming-of-age film into the realm of the transcendent. Malick’s 2011 epic screens on 35mm on Fri, Sep 25 as part of Big & Loud. Get tickets: paristheaternyc.com/film/the-tre...

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  • Laura Lorson @lauralorson.netBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    Favorite movie of last 5 decades: 80s: Wings of Desire 90s: Chungking Express 00s: Samsara 10s: The Tree of Life 20s: Drive My Car

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  • Joel Mayward @jmayward.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2024

    Rewatched my all-time favorite film, THE TREE OF LIFE, for what Letterboxd tells me is my 400th diary entry of 2024.

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  • Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2023

    New "Classics of the New Millennium" podcast up at the Watch List: @alexwinter.com and I go long on the miracle that is Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life." It's a fun, insightful discussion of a great movie (and, yes, we talk about the dinosaurs).

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  • Ross @trusty.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    The Tree of Life (2011) movie night at the church

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  • Sarah @thebasementtan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2025

    Re: the NYT movie list, I'm surprised that THE TREE OF LIFE seems to have come out as the 21st century Malick of choice over THE NEW WORLD, at least for the time being. Wonder if that will shift over the coming years.

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  • Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2026

    The "Choosin' Texas" thing reminds me years ago of those on Film Twitter fully convincing themselves that Terrence Malick's THE TREE OF LIFE was going to break through and be a big box office success. White people love thinking their lives and worldviews are universal to the entire population.

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2026

    Impossible to answer in history of cinema, but off top of my head... Overrated: Love Malick, but aside from its undeniable visual splendor, The Tree of Life is absolute pretension to me Underrated: The Rapture, with Mimi Rogers, boldly & fearlessly goes where few movies have.

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  • Walt Hitchcock @walthitchcock.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2026

    Day 25 of 365 of the Film Challenge: The Tree of Life

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  • Mike Sacks @mikebsacks.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 10, 2026

    I think about this scene all the time and this beautiful movie. The birth of compassion. “The Tree of Life” by the great Terrence Malick. Astonishing.

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  • Bryce @statcrux.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    Not sure exactly how I feel about Wake Up Dead Man but the final image of the movie has me thinking of the sacred heart of Jesus and how his cross is the Tree of Life and his eucharistic blood is its fruit

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  • Scott Colesby Jr. | Photographer @scottcolesbyjr.comBluesky · Dec 9, 2025

    Just after rope drop, when the sun is still rising, The Tree of Life lights up in a way I don’t think anything else does at a Disney Park. Camera: Canon AE-1 Lens: Canon FD 50mm 1.8 Film: Kodak Gold 200 Developer: Cinestill CS41 #disneyworld #filmisnotdead #animalkingdom

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  • benji (moon’s dad) @benjiarmi.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2025

    3 Women, In the Mood for Love, Barbarella, and The Tree of Life… iconique movie line up for me this week

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  • PlanetGay 🌈 @planet-gay-comic.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2026

    🌳 The Tree Of Life II: The Trial of the Warden’s Labyrinth 🎃 🎬 Watch the free 7:13 min 16:9 HD film: deviantart.com/planet-gay-c... AI Content

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  • Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    It's a toss up between The Tree of Life or whatever the Arnofsky movie is Brotherhood of the Wolf and a Canadian movie no one but me has seen about gay men in a prison called Lillies.

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  • JC Clementz @jcclementz.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    What’s your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s - E.T. 90s - Magnolia 00s - No Country for Old Men 10s - The Tree of Life 20s - The Brutalist

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  • tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2025

    Noting that The Tree of Life is playing today at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social at 1 in 35mm., recalling the shock that it gave to the cinematic system; in his sixties, Terrence Malick made a second first film (word x2: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich... www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...

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  • Revolutionary_Jack 🕷🕸! @elvingjack.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2025

    The version of The Tree of Life on Criterion is a re edit by Terrence Malick made for home video, not the original theatrical release. That’s a movie that came out in 2011 moreoever.

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  • Yuri Goddess | mentally still at TIC7 @youryurigoddess.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2025

    Everything is obviously open for discussion at this point, but what I meant above was specifically that the South Downs ending might also happen after the Tree of Life (so as scene 60+). Rob did initially share a plan to film on location in spring, after all!

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  • Cat needs café @forgecat.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2025

    Well crap, now I have to reassess my feelings on The Tree of Life from scratch. Which might require a rewatch. GAH. @chadperman.bsky.social that was incredibly well written, really really… I think I let the dino scene throw me off for the rest of the film. Fair shake time! Excellent piece BW/DR!

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  • RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 4, 2025

    THE TREE OF LIFE - chosen by @briantallerico.bsky.social "Terrence Malick’s THE TREE OF LIFE is a film of vast ambition and deep humility, attempting no less than to encompass all of existence and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal lives." #Day4Empathy

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  • James @jamesdramac.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2026

    Using Tarantino’s one-film-per-director rule, here are some favourites: Before Sunset The Tree of Life Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Shoplifters Certified Copy Oppenheimer Silence Parasite A Separation Us and Them Into the Wild The White Ribbon The Martian The Descendants Little Women La La Land

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  • J.R. (We're Going to Win) @candidgamera.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2026

    Incidentally, my favorite review of it on Letterboxd begins : 'The Tree of Life is likely my second favorite film.' and rates it two and a half stars.

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  • Kimberly 🐘 @elephanttail.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2026

    today I am thinking about the Tree of Life. not the mythological one, the Animal Kingdom one. it's weird how the attraction inside that thing is a 3D film based on a specific IP, rather than something broader about, like, the long history of animals in art. they could cram even more IP into that too

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  • A-Winger 24 @awinger24.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 9, 2026

    @mvbrat10.bsky.social I can’t describe how amazing it was to see Hoppers in a crowded theater. I do hope that Animal Kingdom gets a 4D attraction based on this movie. It’s a perfect fit to go into the Tree of Life. Definitely seeing it again by this weekend. 🦫🦫🪵🪵🦎🦎🥥🚀 🥔

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  • Nightmare Mommy, Kink Sommelier (semper infidelis) @cuntleyjune.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2025

    The Tree of Life (2011) one of the weakest years in film in the last 40, imo. but a lot of people seem to REALLY like this one, and i have not seen it.

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  • PINNLAND EMPIRE @pinnlandempire.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    “l noticed the power of this sort of like roving and mounting poetry in Tree of Life, probably my all-time favorite film” - Ramell Ross, @metrograph The Tree Of Life/Nickel Boys THREAD (3/3) #sidebyside www.pinnlandempire.com/2025/02/nick...

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  • PINNLAND EMPIRE @pinnlandempire.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    “l noticed the power of this sort of like roving and mounting poetry in Tree of Life, probably my all-time favorite film” - Ramell Ross, @metrograph The Tree Of Life/Nickel Boys THREAD (2/3) #sidebyside www.pinnlandempire.com/2025/02/nick...

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  • Richard Stevens @richardstevens.filmBluesky · Dec 15, 2024

    The Tree of Life is an Arbor Day movie

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  • Ross @trusty.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2026

    Need to print invite cards to THE TREE OF LIFE (2011) movie night at church before I leave on my trip tomorrow

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  • Matthew @oceansage771.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2026

    I revisited Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi mystery drama Arrival (2016). I love it now after understanding it better. Amy Adams is very expressive as the smart linguist Louise. Villeneuve’s dreamy & gripping direction feels more like The Tree of Life than I realized. Brilliant film.

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  • Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer @eldashraheb.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s - Rumble Fish 90s - Princess Mononoke 00s - Inland Empire 10s - The Tree of Life 20s - I Saw the TV Glow

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  • The Film Stage @thefilmstage.comBluesky · Oct 31, 2025

    Kevin Brownlow’s restoration of Napoleon, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life on 35mm, and more films to see in NYC this weekend.

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  • wichita chinaman @swaggy.websiteBluesky · May 11, 2025

    i used to watch the trailer for Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life obsessively when it dropped. never got around to watching the movie, until tonight. revisiting the trailer today it's still kind of incredible to look at

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  • Matt Risk @mattrisk.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2025

    Adding the Chicago Indie Film Awards to my list of festival wins for Best Screenplay for "The Tree of Life". woot!

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  • JAE 𐂂 (COMMISSIONS OPEN) @jamkam.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    watched that Here movie. Boomer core Yasujirō Ozu. Robert Zemeckis’ The Tree of Life.

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  • Target Audience Podcast @targetaudience.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2024

    Ep. 57 is live! "What are we to you?" Guest Jay Ledbetter is targeted by Terrance Malick's philosophical drama The Tree of Life. Join us as we talk all things Malick, family drama, and films that evolve upon re-watch podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tar...

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  • Cinematic Second Chances @cinemaseconds.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2026

    Ok, keep us informed. I'd like to see your thoughts- I like them all but have issue with The Tree of Life- I feel ( and this may be just me) that he was too self-conscious, that he was almost trying to make a "Malick" film as opposed to letting it be natural. Again, may just be my reaction.

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  • David Sizemore @davidsizemore.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2026

    Thought this said "The Tree of Life" at first and was like, damn, that's a crazy dinner movie.

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