Right now, in the limited number of theaters playing Black Swan, the first trailer for Terrence Malick's next film Tree of Life is playing for surely stunned moviegoers. No one quite knows that the movie is about, except that Brad Pitt is playing Sean Penn's father, it's intimate family drama that also takes place on a cosmic scale, and there are probably going to be dinosaurs involved. Yeah, I know, I can't wait to see the trailer either.

Until a version arrives online, though, we'll have to content ourselves with two new images and a full description of the trailer that showed up at The LA Times, where Steven Zeitchik was given an advance look at the thing. It's incredibly hard to describe a trailer but Zeitchik gives it his all, painting the picture of a very artsy, very experiential trailer that also hints at a story of a man (Penn) struggling with the memories of his seemingly idyllic childhood as an adult. And no, no dinosaurs yet. Here are two choice paragraphs:

A little more than halfway into the trailer we see the first cut of a troubled grown-up Jack (Sean Penn), which is pretty much when the trailer takes a turn into an epic, unnamed crisis. Jack is going through something tough, and while we don't know what it is, we see him dealing with it, seemingly alone, against stark and painterly backdrops (reminiscent in several instances of what Julian Schnabel did with "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly").

Interpolated into the trailer are all kinds of this sort of visual poetry -- shots of vast landscapes and religious half-light and spinning planets, along with one very weird shot of what could be a lunar (but is more likely a prehistoric) dark landscape. (No dinosaurs, though, at least not here.) Earth's basic elements are also a motif: cascading water, leaping flames, etc. And then there's the trailer's best shot: a square-on look at the bottom of a baby's foot that signals Jack's arrival into the world.

Check out the full description over there, along with larger versions of the two images you see below. Hopefully the trailer itself will arrive online soon so we can all look for ourselves. Tree of Life, released by Fox Searchlight, hits theaters May 27.