How will the Palme d’Or affect ‘Tree of Life’s’ commercial prospects?
FilmMay 24, 2011
In the coming weeks, there will be plenty of chances to gauge the mainstream appetite for Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life,” the story of God and nature and one mid-century family’s issues among them, which opens in limited urban release this weekend before expanding in the following week to suburban precincts.But Sunday’s news out of the Cannes Film Festival that the movie had won the Palme d’