Days of Heaven (1979) Terrence Malick

In the mid-1910s, a Chicago steelworker (Richard Gere) accidentally kills his supervisor, and flees with his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and his little sister (Linda Manz) to the Texas panhandle, where they find work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer (Sam Shepard). A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish fire—Malick captures it all with dreamlike authenticity, creating a timeless American idyll that is also a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.

Rating: PG

• Genre: Drama/Romance

• Original Language: English

• Director: Terrence Malick

• Producer: Bert Schneider, Harold Schneider

• Writer: Terrence Malick

• Release Date: May 1979

• Runtime: 94 minutes

Where to meet:

Meet at Bull at 7.30pm for a drink. We will walk down to the cinema at 8pm.