American filmmaker (born 1943), regarded as one of cinema's greatest philosophical and spiritual directors. Films include Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978), The Thin Red Line (1998), The Tree of Life (2011), and A Hidden Life (2019). Trained in philosophy at Harvard and Oxford (Rhodes Scholar).
Created a body of cinematic work unmatched in its sustained philosophical and theological seriousness; The Tree of Life is widely regarded as one of cinema's most ambitious meditations on creation, suffering, and grace.
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