Terrence Malick’s reimagining of the story of John Smith and Pocahontas (portrayed by Colin Farrell and Q’orianka Kilcher) is a reverie fueled by both history and mythology, corporal tactility and breathy romance. It’s the potential of these poles coexisting that the film uneasily explores, exemplified by the passion and curiosity shared between Captain Smith and the beautiful native princess, before witnessing the white settler’s betrayal of their hosts, defilement of the land, and general descent into grievous and gruesome inhumanity. Thanks to longtime production designer Jack Fisk, Jamestown is realized as a pungent outpost of muckiness and madness, while DP Emmanuel Lubeski, in his first of a storied series of collaborations with Malick, careens his steadicam over fields of grass, between native communities and the settler chaos, and finally through the corridors and finely trimmed hedges of Jacobean London, where Pocahontas’s story continues with an immigration story of her own.