Media Release 21 March 2016

World premiere of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life to be screened at the National Concert Hall with 100-piece orchestra and choir

The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick
Screening and live film score with RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and choir
at the National Concert Hall
Friday 3 June 2016, 8pm
TICKETS €45, €40, €35

Tickets On Sale Wednesday 23rd March, 10am
(or Tuesday 22nd for Friends of the National Concert Hall)

The National Concert Hall and Wordless Music present the world premiere of The Tree of Life , written and directed by Terrence Malick, with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and choir performing live to a full screening of Malick's 2011 masterpiece.

For this occasion, Wordless Music has partnered with Fox Searchlight Pictures to produce a new, music-less print of the film for the orchestra to perform alongside.

Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, The Tree of Life was chosen by Roger Ebert as ‘One of the Ten Greatest Films of All Time’ in Sight & Sound Magazine's 2012 critics poll, and by over 300 critics and writers this year as the ‘Best Film of the Decade so Far’.

The score for this much lauded movie features music by Bach, Couperin, Mozart, Berlioz, Brahms, Smetana, Mussorgsky, Mahler, Holst, Górecki, Tavener, Giya Kancheli, Barry Guy and Zbigniew Preisner.

From Terrence Malick, the acclaimed director of such classic films as Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Through Malick’s signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life.

The Tree of Life screening is presented by the National Concert Hall and Wordless Music in partnership with Fox Searchlight Pictures as part of Perspectives.

Tickets: €45, €40, €35 ON SALE Wednesday 23 March, 10am (or Tuesday 22nd of March for Friends of the NCH) National Concert Hall Box Office, Tel: 01 417 0000 or www.nch.ie
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For further information please contact Sinead Doyle, Marketing & PR Manager, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2. Tel: 01 4170052 or 087 1775334