Badlands

Director:

Terrence Malick

Details:

USA | 1973 | 94 mins | Rated 15

Starring:

Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek

Links & Reviews:

IMDB, Channel 4, The Times

Synopsis

He was 25 years old. He combed his hair like James Dean. She was 15. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton. For a while they lived together in a tree house. In 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people.

Based upon the real life Charles Starkweather and Caril-Ann Fugate murders that shocked America, Terrence Malick’s masterpiece of 1970s cinema is a mystical delight for the senses. An astonishing début, this is a cult classic not to be missed.