Even the title of David Lowery’s new film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, has an elegiac air. It is a rare film, a western more focused on the delicate, green love of its star-crossed protagonists – played by Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara– than shoot-outs and getaways, though they also feature. Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, rather than Bonnie and Clyde, seems to be Lowery’s point of reference. Mara and Affleck play bl...
Even the title of David Lowery’s new film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, has an elegiac air. It is a rare film, a western more focused on the delicate, green love of its star-crossed protagonists – played by Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara– than shoot-outs and getaways, though they also feature. Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, rather than Bonnie and Clyde, seems to be Lowery’s point of reference. Mara and Affleck play bl...
