Friday 18 June
19.00
Badlands
(Terrence Malick, USA 1973, 97’)

A young couple, played by Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen, goes on a Midwest crime spree in Terrence Malick's hypnotically assured debut feature, based on the 1958 Starkweather-Fugate murders. Presenting a fascinating portrait of opaque, vaguely-motivated characters drifting across an ethereal landscape, the film defamiliarises and critiques the familiar coordinates of the road movie genre.

Badlands presents a potent but immaterial portrait of its period. Like Malick's subsequent films, Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998), it presents characters who are mired in their society, their moment in history, and who react in keeping with the stereotypes, clichés and constricting social, philosophical and moral conditions within which they exist.

Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium

£3.50 (£2 concessions), booking recommended

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