A Hidden Life
First screened in October 2019
Director: Terrence Malick. Cast: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Franz Rogowski, Karl Markovics, Maria Simon, Alexander Fehling, Bruno Ganz, Ulrich Matthes, Tobias Moretti, Karin Neuhäuser, Michael Nyqvist, Jürgen Prochnow, Matthias Schoenaerts. Screenplay: Terrence Malick. Twitter Capsule:
As gorgeous as you would predict, but grandiose in ways its subject would dislike. Repetitious and overlong, too.
VOR:④
Timeliness of subject and relation of style to theme all worth witnessing, and debating. I think it falters dramatically, but it's a tough subject.
