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Dir: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint

 

Description: Re-release of Terrence Malick's 1973 cult thriller based on the Charles Starkweather and Carol Fugate killing spree of the 1950s. Social misfits and lovers Kit and Holly kill her disapproving father and then go on the run to Montana. Fifteen-year-old Holly romanticizes the carnage through her narration, but as the police close in on the dreamers, their relationship falters and they are compelled to confront their sins.

Country: US. 1973. 93mins
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Badlands is like complex Bonnie and Clyde

By Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard  28.08.08
 
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Killer portrayal: Martin Sheen in Badlands

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“Suppose I shoot you, how’d that be?” says Martin Sheen’s polite if bloody killer in Terrence Malick’s disturbing 1974 debut, based the story of Charles Starkweather, a young man who went on a killing spree in the Dakota badlands of the Fifties.

It’s a film with reminders of Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde, since Starkweather (here called Kit) had a mutually destructive romantic relationship with a lonely young schoolgirl, played by Sissy Spacek.

It is, however, far more complex, showing an idyllic natural world corrupted by the bullet-ridden bodies of Starkweather’s victims. The superb performances from Sheen and Spacek are as memorable as Malick’s vision of something akin to hell.

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