So it looks like Terrence Malick is one super hands-on producer, or he’s very much okay with imitation being the sincerest form of flattery. The first teaser for A.J. Edwards’ directorial debut “The Better Angels” has arrived and nobody would blink if you told them this was a Malick vehicle instead.
Jason Clarke, Diane Kruger and Brit Marling star in this black-and-white biopic about the childhood of Abraham Lincoln and like all children, it involved a lot of running through fields as a camera swayed lazily alongside them, capturing it all in dreamlike beauty. Not kidding about the dreamlike beauty part, no matter how Malick-like it is. This looks gorgeous and the cast seems ideally suited, not to mention refreshingly taking on something unlike any of them have done before.
“The Better Angels” premieres at the Sundance Film Festival starting this week, and hopefully we’ll hear more about distribution plans then. For now, the brief teaser is below.
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