<em>Song to Song</em> Is a Dizzying Romance With Little to Say
Set in Austin’s music scene, Terrence Malick’s new film boasts an all-star cast and will test viewers’ patience like the master auteur’s other recent movies.
With the release of Song to Song, it’s time to come up with a name for this creatively fertile, aggressively poetic period in the beloved auteur Terrence Malick’s career. Much like The Tree of Life, , and , his new film is light on plot and heavy on portentous voice-over. The characters are thinly defined at best, but they’re also all the camera cares about, emphatically twirling around them as they dance, canoodle, and wrestle with all of life’s quandaries.
