TREE OF LIFE is "finished" and "almost certainly heading to Cannes"!!

According to Apparition's Sara Rose; the much discussed, long in-gestation Terrence Malick directed passion epic 'The Tree of Life' is;

"almost certainly heading to Cannes".

This comes just one day after her Apparition colleague Bill Berney curiously claimed the movie is "in fact finished" and it's November U.S. theatrical opening,"doesn€™t mean it won€™t be ready for Cannes".The Playlist carry the scoop; along with a tweet from ION Cinema that says the movie will play during the director's showcase fortnight. As we saw last year with 'Antichrist'... ...Cannes is built for auterish passion projects, prestigious high-art and out of the norm fare. It's exists for risky, ambitious film-making which either makes you a saint (Von Trier, Tarantino) or a lunatic whose experiment needs to be booed (Richard Kelly's"Southland Tales", Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette"), a modern day version of the mob throwing rotten fruit & veg at prisoners in stocks. That's the cornerstone of the Cannes Film Festival, and is why it stands above the others. As far as we are aware, 'Tree of Life' is a mood drama that follows two narratives - a modern day, troubled middle-aged American called Jack (Sean Penn) who is struggling to overcome his childhood and his latter day resentment of his father (Brad Pitt); whose life we see in the 1950's. We are told to think of the 1993 drama 'This Year's Life' in regards to the picture; especially in terms of Pitt's performance which is reminiscent of the abusive father Robert De Niro played in that movie. Oh, and didn't someone say somehow, someway, there would astonishingly be dinosaurs in this one, or has that since being shot down?