Ain't Them Bodies Saints won a Sundance Film Festival award for cinematography. And, indeed, the shots are lovely, although at times you just feel like you're rewatching The Tree of Life (it's also set in the timeless South) or watching a movie made with instagram.
The problem is, unlike The Tree of Life, the plot is conventional--and so the film becomes simply a vague and at times unclear story--rather than Malick's poetic and imaginative hints and glances at the confusion of childhood.
And then there's the title. It makes no sense to me--I can't see any meaning in it, nor any tie to the film. IMDB says: "According to Casey Affleck, the title is the director David Lowery's misquotation from lyrics of a song and has no actual meaning. " Wow.
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