![]() Simmons), Vivian Vance (Nina Arianda), and Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) rehearse a gag for I Love Lucy in Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos. (L to R) Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem), William Frawley (J.K. The strikingly mature teen Manz narrates, using her hard, naïve voice on the gorgeous prose, while Ennio Morricone’s superb score provides layers of melancholy and longing. The film was legendarily shot largely during the “Magic Hour,” or just before sunrise and just after sunset, creating gloriously poetic visuals. Malick, however, does not focus on plot detail as much as he does the rhythms of the land and the colors of the light. Though Bill and Abby are lovers, they pretend to be siblings in the hope that the farmer will marry Abby and leave his land to her. Loosely based on Henry James’ novel The Wings of the Dove, it tells the story of Bill (Richard Gere), Abby (Brooke Adams), and Linda (the incredible Linda Manz), migrant laborers who go to work for a dying farmer (Sam Shepard). ![]() Terrence Malick’s deeply artful second feature Days of Heaven (1978) is one of the great films of the 1970s. Migrant laborer Bill (Richard Gere) concocts a risky plan to inherit a farm in Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven.
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