The New World (2005)

Highly Recommended

USA/UK
Feature Film
Writer/Director: Terrence Malick
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
Composer: James Horner
Cast: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi, David Thewlis, Yorick van Wageningen, Raoul Trujillo

Malick’s typically lyrical depiction of the setting up of the Jamestown settlement by British settlers on the shores of the titular lands in the early 17th century, and their troubled interactions with the Powhatan locals, is a pleasingly unromantic work, which is as brutal as it is beautiful. Iain.Stott