I don’t know much about Terrence Malick. But then again, I don’t know much about Alfred Hitchcock either, and it doesn’t stop me knowing that Disturbia is a rip-off of Rear Window. As literally every other critic on earth has noted, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints appears to be a homage to Malick’s love of trackless…

Love. As the most powerful and most mystifying emotion, it has inspired filmmakers ever since filmmaking began. This Autumn, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints looks to add to the list of great film love stories. In this story of two bank-robbing lovers, Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck) escapes prison in the hill country of Texas to reunite with Ruth Guthrie (Rooney Mara), four years after he took the fall for her crime. In anticipation of what looks to be a beautiful story of love, here are some of the greatest on-screen romances in film history.

Rooney Mara is slowly becoming a household name for her chameleon approach to taking on challenging roles and refusing to be typecast. From a typical American teen to a Swedish computer hacker, and most recently a Texas outlaw in the 1970s in August’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, let’s take a look at some of the many changing faces of Rooney Mara’s dynamic career to date.