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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Malick again pairs ravishing natural landscapes with elliptical storytelling and a young woman’s reflective viewpoint, finding fragile beauty and melancholy around morally compromised lovers.
02
Why this pick
Its romantic outlaw couple, matter-of-fact violence, period Americana and tonal shift between playful freedom and dread make it a vital companion to Badlands.
03
Why this pick
A restless lovers-on-the-run story with roadside Americana, media attention and mounting pursuit; it shares Badlands’ sympathy for impulsive fugitives while keeping a looser, warmer rhythm.
04
Why this pick
This spare, drifting road movie turns empty American highways and taciturn young outsiders into an unsettling, sun-bleached mood piece with the same cool observational distance.
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Why this pick
Altman’s Depression-era fugitives are observed with unhurried tenderness and irony, using radio-filled rural America to make criminal romance feel intimate, doomed and strangely ordinary.
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01 / THE STORY
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Holly's Father
Boy
Kit Carruthers
Holly Sargis
Cato
Deputy
Rich Man
Boy Under Lamppost
