THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE / THE TREE OF LIFE

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Aero Theatre | Q&A with Jessica Chastain. Moderated by Katie Walsh.

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ABOUT THE FILMS

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE, 2021, Searchlight Pictures, 126 min, USA, Dir: Michael Showalter.

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE is an intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker starring Jessica Chastain. In the 1970s and 80s, Tammy Faye (Chastain) and her husband, Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield), rose from humble beginnings to create the world’s largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance and prosperity. Tammy Faye was legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace people from all walks of life. However, it wasn’t long before financial improprieties, scheming rivals, and scandal toppled their carefully constructed empire.

FORMAT: DCP

THE TREE OF LIFE, 2011, Disney, 139 min, USA, Dir: Terrence Malick.

A young boy’s troubled upbringing in the 1950s and the creation of the Earth are depicted with psychedelic reverence in Terrence Malick’s visually operatic meditation on existence. Hunter McCracken stars as Jack, a Waco youth grappling with his relationship with his bristling father (a clench-jawed Brad Pitt, never better) while forming a close unit with his mother (Jessica Chastain, in a radiant performance) and younger brothers (Laramie Epler and Tye Sheridan). Powerful music by Mozart, Bach and Berlioz (to name a few) accents the consummate soundtrack, while the designs of famed special effects artist Douglas Trumbull (2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY) offer a staggering and kaleidoscopic crash course on the evolution of the universe. Director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki’s lyrical cinematography is perfectly harmonious with Malick’s poetic style. With Sean Penn.

FORMAT: TBC