Terrence Malick (born 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter known for poetic, image-driven films such as Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The Tree Of Life. His work frequently divides critics; The Tree Of Life won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Malick's cinema is noted for strong visual style, extensive use of voice-over, themes linking man and nature, long gaps between early films and a more prolific later period. His films on DeBaser provoke both high praise for visual poetry and sharp criticism for perceived repetition and elliptical narratives.

DeBaser's reviews present Terrence Malick as a poetic, image-driven auteur. Early films (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line) are widely praised for visual beauty and emotional depth. Later works (The Tree Of Life, To The Wonder, Song to Song) divide opinion for heavy voiceovers, elliptical plotting, and repeated stylistic choices. Overall reception on DeBaser is admiring but frequently ambivalent.

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 "There are two ways through life: the way of nature, and the way of grace."

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 I have seen another world. Sometimes I fear it was just a figment of my imagination.

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 To The Wonder thus sinks into a sea of clichés and self-parodies (impossible to list them all), and its viewing cannot simply be justified by the concept of "cinema of images": however aesthetically satisfying, making a collage of wonderful shots (which, to be honest, aren't all that wonderful) put together without a logical thread is not, in my opinion, a sufficient reason to create a film of nearly two hours.

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 Malick has created a new way of making cinema and expressing the union between man and nature.

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