Days of Heaven

Director: Terrence Malick

Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert Wilke, Jackie Shultis

(Paramount, 1978) Rated: PG

US DVD release date: 23 October 2007 (Criterion)

by Michael Buening

Terrence Malick's 1978 film leaves you with the ache of paradise briefly felt and then remembered.
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