2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life

After spending a whole bunch of time in post (sadly actors Michael Nyqvist and Bruno Ganz will have never had the chance to see  their performances), Terrence Malick makes his third trip to Cannes after Days of Heaven and the Palme d’Or winning The Tree of Life. His tenth feature film, A Hidden Life (featuring August Diehl and Valerie Pachner) is a German-U.S. co-production that explores the true story of one Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II and paid dearly for his convictions. Perhaps a confrere to The Thin Red Line for an anti-war stance but this one comes with no war sequences (save some stock footage) and visually expresses the anguish of making moral choices when it affects more than one.

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