After his iconic debut Badlands, filmmaker Terrence Malick took a different approach with the dazzling Days of Heaven, a lyrical love tragedy seen through the eyes of a teenage girl.

    Early twentieth century; the volatile metalworker Bill (Richard Gere), his younger sister, and his girlfriend Abby (Brooke Adams) attempt to escape poverty in Chicago by traveling south. In Texas, they find work on a farm. The farmer (Sam Shepard), who is seriously ill and will die within a year, falls in love with Abby and proposes to her.

    “Is Days of Heaven the most beautiful film ever made?” legendary critic David Thomson once asked. In light of the stunning magic-hour cinematography of Néstor Almendros and Haskell Wexler, the iconic music by Ennio Morricone, the sprawling wheatfields pleasantly undulating in the heat of the summer, to many admirers of Terrence Malick’s second movie the answer is a resounding: ‘Yes!’