The Tree of Life

…most notably Terrence Malick’s meditation The Tree of Life and the blockbuster The Help. In the latter, Chastain portrayed an ostracized housewife who hires an African American cook (Octavia Spencer) to fool Chastain’s husband into thinking that she knows how to cook and do housework. For her performance, Chastain earned…

Malick’s next production, The Tree of Life (2011), was an impressionistic essay on humankind’s place in the universe, presented through the lens of a troubled family in 1950s Texas. The film, which featured Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival, and…

In Malick’s impressionistic drama The Tree of Life (2011), Penn appeared as a man haunted by memories of his childhood. Penn later portrayed a former rock star turned Nazi hunter in This Must Be the Place (2011), mid-20th-century mob boss Mickey Cohen in the noir drama Gangster Squad (2013),…

In Terrence Malick’s impressionistic drama The Tree of Life (2011), he played a domineering father in 1950s Texas.

The Tree of Life is also the title of a critically acclaimed 2011 film by filmmaker Terrence Malick. Starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, and Sean Penn, the film concerns the trials and tragedies of an American family but seeks to place the family in the…