A religious experience at the movies? ‘A Hidden Life’ aims high.
Dec 31, 2019
2 minutes
Most of the famous religious-themed Hollywood movies – from “The Ten Commandments” to “The Greatest Story Ever Told” – are biblical epics functioning as star-studded illustrated guidebooks to sacred texts. Writer-director Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life” is the antithesis of those epics. It’s an attempt to make the movie itself function as a religious experience.
It’s about Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), a peasant farmer and devout Roman
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