
Bill and Abby, a young couple who to the outside world pretend to be brother and sister are living and working in Chicago at the beginning of the century. They want to escape the poverty and hard labor of the city and travel south. Together with the girl Linda (who acts as the narrator in the movie) they find employment on a farm in the Texas panhandle. When the harvest is over the young, rich and handsome farmer invites them to stay because he has fallen in love with Abby. W... (Full plot summary below)
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Bill and Abby, a young couple who to the outside world pretend to be brother and sister are living and working in Chicago at the beginning of the century. They want to escape the poverty and hard labor of the city and travel south. Together with the girl Linda (who acts as the narrator in the movie) they find employment on a farm in the Texas panhandle. When the harvest is over the young, rich and handsome farmer invites them to stay because he has fallen in love with Abby. When Bill and Abby discover that the farmer is seriously ill and has only got a year left to live they decide that Abby will accept his wedding proposal in order to make some benefit out of the situation. When the expected death fails to come, jealousy and impatience are slowly setting in and accidents become eventually inevitable.
Leave your thoughts about Days of Heaven.
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouMichael NordineThe refusal to privilege the 'big' over the 'small' is present in all of Malick's work, but it finds its first fully-realized expression here. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawThe film, with its transcendentally beautiful visuals...is a rich and rewarding experience. [1 Sept. 2011] |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAbove all one of the most beautiful films ever made. Malick's purpose is not to tell a story of melodrama, but one of loss. His tone is elegiac. He evokes the loneliness and beauty of the limitless Texas prairie. [7 Dec. 1997] |
| Common Sense MediaBrian CostelloUnforgettable 1978 love triangle drama includes violence. |
| Electric SheepJohn BleasdaleThe writing is witty, the story is told with a beguiling simplicity and the period is meticulously realised, not only in farming equipment and costume, but in attitudes and faces. |
| Austin ChronicleRobert FairesSome movies are like Dorothy's twister; they just pick you up and whisk you away from the commonplace world you know to a world wondrous and astonishing. Days of Heaven is such a movie. [27 July 1998] |
| Total FilmMatthew LeylandLargely lensed in the window between sunset and nightfall, it’s a magic-hour masterpiece. [26 Aug. 2011] |
| NewsweekJack KrollTo hell with equivocation or beating around the bush: Terrence Malick's 1978 Days of Heaven is the greatest film ever made. And let the word film be emphasized, since Malick's sophomore masterpiece earns this exalted designation from its position as a work of pure cinema. [22 Oct. 2007] |
| EmpireIan NathanRarely has a film bared itself to simple majesty...it feels epic yet runs barely over and hour and a half. [22 Oct. 1997] |
| The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsIt's Malick's particular genius to make viewers feel like they're seeing the world, with all its beauty and danger, for the first time. [28 Nov. 2007] |