badlands

Badlands

Directed by Terrence Malick
U.S / 1973 / Narrative
94 minutes / English, French

Presented as part of Golden Anniversaries, a series that honors films celebrating their 50th year of release.

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

Intro and discussion by T.J. Keeley, Ph.D. student in contemporary American literature at Saint Louis University and teacher of English and film at college prep schools in the St. Louis area.