These are hard questions in any circumstance and Malick’s uniquely poetic vision of cinema brings them to life in a montage of beautiful, deliberate and lush visuals set against the Austrian countryside.
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What if you were asked to do something horrible and the cost of not doing it is death? How far are you willing to go to avoid compromising your values? If free will exists, then what excuse do you have to avoid asking yourself these questions when evil approaches your door? These are the questions Terrence Malick asks in his new three-hour epic, A Hidden Life. Positive Content: Themes of sacrifice, steadfastness and faith. Other Negative Content: Depiction of bigotry, Nazism and torture. The main character is retroactively declared a martyr. Spiritual Content: Characters attend a Catholic church and ponder on the nature of morality. Sexual Content: Characters embrace and kiss. Language/Crude Humor: Mild to no language. Violence/Scary Images: Characters are violently beaten.
After a decade of experimenting with some of his least coherent and most experimental movies yet, he’s finally returned to the epic historical tragedies that have defined his long career, with masterpieces like Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life. It’s not the kind of thing you can recommend to everyone, but there’s a beauty to all nine of his films that makes them irreplaceable. His movies often eschew plot for visual poetry and motion. He’s a director of long-winded, emotionally devastating collages. Malick is different in that he doesn’t just film traditional clean-cut stories. Guillermo Del Toro is a romantic schlockmeister.
Wes Anderson films his movies like portraits. Stanley Kubrick was a rigid perfectionist. Most directors have a STYLE that differentiates them from other artists. Terrence Malick is one of Hollywood’s most idiosyncratic directors. Starring: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Matthias Schoenaerts
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