POTSDAM -- Cinema 10 presents a free screening of “The Tree of Life” Thursday, May 3 at 6:45 p.m. at the Roxy Theater, Main Street. A previous screening had some technical difficulties that prevented a full appreciation of the film.

“Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn, and a roadside Texas BBQ, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life bears forth a variety of forms—and invites as many reactions,” wrote Nick Pinkerton of The Village Voice. “Better than a masterpiece—whatever that is—The Tree of Life is an eruption of a movie, something to live with, think, and talk about afterward.”

Malick’s latest combination of visual lyricism and spirituality focuses on the O’Brien family, living in the suburbs of Waco, Texas, in the 1950s, particularly on the three boys, whose relationship with their father (Brad Pitt) is the film’s center.

Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times comments, “If I set out to make an autobiographical film, and if I had Malick's gift, it would look so much like this: the film evoked my own memories of such time and place. About wide lawns. About a town that somehow, in memory, is always seen with a wide-angle lens. About houses that are never locked.”