Cannes: Terrence Malick's 'A Hidden Life' is a return to form and a spiritual call to arms
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
May 20, 2019
4 minutes
CANNES, France - In the eight years since Terrence Malick won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for "The Tree of Life," his magisterial drama about childhood's end and the spirit's awakening, the standard critical line is that he has become an artist lost in the wilderness, stranded in an artistic limbo of his own making.
His most recent features - "To the Wonder," "Knight of Cups" and "Song to Song" - are wispy, fragmentary tales of romantic ennui and moral drift, full of visual beauty but absent a comparable sense of transcendence. I admired them more than many of my colleagues did, though it would be disingenuous not to admit that I,
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