The first trailer for Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, and Cate Blanchett, is here.
For some it’s been too long since we last entered Terrence Malick’s dizzying vistas of the human soul, and even dizzier attempts at story structure or purpose. Enter Knight of Cups.
After going To the Wonder with Ben Affleck, Malick seems to be traversing the total emptiness of the existential LA experience with Christian Bale. In fact, his cast his filled with star wattage including Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Antonio Banderas, Wes Bentley, Freida Pinto, Isabel Lucas, and Ben Kingsley.
The synopsis for Knight of Cups is below, and it’s exactly what you might expect from a Malick film.
Once there was a young prince whose father, the king of the East, sent him down into Egypt to find a pearl. But when the prince arrived, the people poured him a cup. Drinking it, he forgot he was the son of a king, forgot about the pearl and fell into a deep sleep.
Rick’s (Christian Bale) father used to read this story to him as a boy.
The road to the East stretches out before him. Will he set forth?
Knight of Cups will premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February.
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