Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The Tree of Life’: Putting Life’s Problems in Perspective

This ultrawide spectrum that ‘The Tree of Life’ has immediately and inherently generates some of the huge questions humans tend to ask.

PG-13 | 2h 19min | Drama, Fantasy | 17 May 2011 (France)

As our cinematic director-elders move closer to the end of their lives, the big questions are starting to surface in their work. Clint Eastwood’s 2010 “Hereafter” explored the afterlife. Then came Terrence Malick in 2011 with “The Tree of Life.”