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Looks intense. I like it! Intriguing too! I will definitely be seeing this. And, give Michelle Williams an Oscar, already. I didn’t put any of Terrence Malick’s films on my list of the best movies of the decade, but I did mention him as one of the decade’s best directors. The run of movies that he’s made in the past ten years?“ The Tree of Life, ” “ To the Wonder, ” “ Knight of Cups, ” and “ Song to Song ”?is, in effect, a single movie, ranging over the places and experiences of his life and linking them to a grand metaphysical design. He is, moreover, one of the few filmmakers?ever?to realize a style that matches such a transcendent goal. Yet, when I heard that the subject of Malick’s new film, “A Hidden Life, ” would be the story of an Austrian soldier who refuses to fight on behalf of Nazi Germany, I worried. Malick’s recent string of glories focusses on places that he knows well and at first hand. He has spent plenty of time in Texas, France, and Hollywood, but he has, of course, never been to Nazi Germany. Even so, I walked into “A Hidden Life” buoyed by confidence in the impulses and intuitions of such a great director. It’s painful to discover that “A Hidden Life” is as aridly theoretical and impersonal as its bare-bones description suggests. It’s based on the true story of Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), an Austrian farmer living peacefully in the rustic farm village of Radegund with his wife, Fani (Valerie Pachner), their three young daughters, her sister (Maria Simon), and his mother (Karin Neuhäuser). In 1940, he’s conscripted into the Army?at a time when Austrian soldiers, in the wake of the Anschluss, were forced to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler. Franz doesn’t believe in the Nazi cause or agree with its racial hatreds. He thinks that Germany is waging an unjust war, and he doesn’t like Hitler. He shows up for military duty grudgingly but refuses to swear the oath, claiming conscientious-objector status, and is consequently arrested and imprisoned. Meanwhile, his outsider status?as other men in the village have gone off to fight and die?leads to Fani and their children being ostracized, apart from the secret support of a few friends who share Franz’s sympathies but not his resolve or courage. The movie includes heavily edited illustrative clips from newsreel footage, showing the destruction of the Second World War, Hitler giving speeches, and Nazi rallies. These clips present both a mystery and an authenticity that nothing in the rest of the film can match. For that matter, clips from home movies of Hitler appear, appallingly, as part of a dream sequence, but they seem tossed in, mainly serving as a reminder of Hitler’s ubiquity at the time. This historical footage overwhelms the entire movie, turning the dramatization into a virtual puppet show. Franz and Fani are seen romping through the fields of Radegund, like blissfully ignorant children, until the lightning bolt of the military draft strikes their household, in 1940, two years after the Anschluss and seven years after Hitler came to power. It’s as if politics and its cultural and local correlates had never existed in Austria. The townspeople appear to have been living like Rousseauian innocents, in a state of natural nobility tinged by a golden drop of Catholicism?happy, safe, and holy. Their village is a hermetic, apolitical, and utterly pre-modern agrarian paradise. The first sign of trouble, ludicrously, is the sound of an airplane overhead, which makes Fani tilt her head upward in bewilderment. Meanwhile, the village’s committed Nazi mayor (Karl Markovics) drunkenly rails against “outsiders” and “immigrants”?but did he and his hatreds suddenly come from nowhere? Austrian politics throughout the nineteen-thirties were turbulent, and the Anschluss happened in 1938, yet it seems that politics didn’t penetrate the village’s rustic fabric until the draft snapped up Franz, in 1940?and, even then, he takes his conscription and training as a sort of summer-camp game (though he is conspicuously alone among recruits in not applauding a newsreel of German military victories). Returning home, Franz worries about the possibility of being called to active duty; he refuses to say “Heil Hitler” to passersby. (His response of “Pfui Hitler” gets him into trouble. ) Then, in 1943, he is asked to report to the barracks for active duty; that’s when he refuses to swear the oath to Hitler. The familiar freedom of Malick’s rhapsodic cinematography is here largely sacrificed to illustrative and indicative images (the cinematographer is Jörg Widmer, who was a camera operator on several of Malick’s earlier films) and the acting is constrained to match, reduced to facile theatrics and superficial expressions, smiling and frowning, gleeful frolics and heavy trudges. Before the trouble strikes, family happiness is shown in the carefree laughter of a game of blind man’s bluff, the ardent young couple romps in the fields while cutting hay or travelling a farm road. The natural splendors of Radegund are postcard-like; the plunging and surging camera work is merely a tic. More or less every shot represents a descriptive line in a screenplay rather than a free observation or a distillation of inner experience; each image checks off predetermined points rather than effecting discoveries. The entire movie seems designed to illustrate a thesis, one that’s explicitly stated in the film, albeit inversely. “A Hidden Life” is designed solely to contradict the warning of Nazi officials that Franz’s resistance is futile, not only because he’ll be executed but because his sacrifice will be forgotten and remain unknown and without effect or influence. By the very fact of making the film, Malick both remembers the story and calls it to viewers’ minds?though he isn’t the single-handed recoverer of an otherwise-lost historical event. The letters between the real-life Franz and Fani have survived and have been published, and they provide the basis for the film (as well as the texts for some of its voice-overs). Malick is transmitting a story of which powerful documentary traces remain. What’s missing from his depiction of Franz’s resistance is literally the documentary aspect, the element of the story that connects it directly to Malick’s first-person obsessions. It is Malick’s extreme and original approach, in his past decade of work, to experience and observation that has led to his furiously lyrical transcendental style. The present-tense-based dramatizations that, when they involve Malick’s own life and his own places, people, and activities, have been so comprehensively challenging, prove, in “A Hidden Life, ” vague, impersonal, and complacent. Malick has turned his own idiosyncratic manner into a commonplace, a convention, a habit. There’s one moment in which Malick declares something like an artistic purpose?a scene in which an artist painting scenes from the life of Christ on the walls of the local church complains to Franz of his own inadequate work as a painter of consolation rather than of torment, of reverence rather than of sacrifice. (The artist also alludes to the vain confidence of parishioners that they’d have stood with Jesus rather than with his persecutors?a line that hits Franz like a challenge. ) Malick stands on both sides of the equation: he offers images of earthly rapture, suggesting the virtual paradise given to humanity, and he also offers images of torment and agony, suggesting the spoliation, through sin, with which humanity has besmirched that paradise.
A Hidden Life Watch Full length. A hidden life watch full length video. A meditation on morality and faith; a film of unparalleled sublimity; an experience beyond the sensory A Hidden Life, which may be writer/director Terrence Malick's most ostensibly Christian film yet, is quintessentially Malickian, featuring many of his most identifiable stylistic traits. His films are about the search for transcendence in a compromised and often evil world, and, telling the true story of the Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, A Hidden Life is no different. How good is it? Very, very, very good. Not quite The Thin Red Line/The Tree of Life good, but certainly Badlands/Days of Heaven/The New World good. This is cinema at its most sublimely pious. You don't watch A Hidden Life. You let it enter your soul. Austria, 1938. In the bucolic village of Sankt Radegund, farmer Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl) lives with his wife Fani (Valerie Pachner) and their family. A devout Christian, he's unenthusiastic about the looming war, despite its widespread popularity in the village. As time goes by, and the war shows no signs of ending, his opposition grows ever more ingrained, to the point where his family are being harassed. Eventually, he's conscripted, but refuses to swear an oath of allegiance to Hitler, and so is arrested and imprisoned. Needless to say, Malick fashions this material into a thematically rich mosaic. To a certain extent, all his films deal with the corruption of Eden, and Hidden Life is as literal as Thin Red Line and New World in this respect. Sankt Radegund is an earthly paradise (the film was originally called Radegund, before adopting the George Eliot quote as its title). However, as the war takes hold, the village comes under attack, not by bombs, but by ideological complicity, and the village at the end is an infinitely different place from that at the start, a tainted place. Franz doesn't resist the Nazis because of politics. His reasons are simpler ? he believes that God teaches us to resist evil, and as a great evil, he must therefore resist Nazism. In an important exchange with Judge Lueben (Bruno Ganz), Franz is asked, "Do you have a right to do this? ", to which he responds, "Do I have a right not to? " His resistance is in his very soul. Indeed, watching him head willingly toward his tragic fate, turning the other cheek to the prison guards who humiliate him, he becomes something of a Christ figure, with his time in prison not unlike the Passion. Aesthetically, as one expects from Malick, A Hidden Life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful, particularly in its depiction of nature. Shooting digitally, Malick and his first-time cinematographer Jörg Widmer shot most of the exteriors in a wide-lens anamorphic format that distorts everything outside the dead-centre of the frame. The effect is subtle (we're not talking fisheye lens distortion), but important ? pushing the mountains further around the village, bringing the sky closer, elongating the already vast fields. This is a land beyond time, a modern Utopia that kisses the very sky. It's also worth noting that a lot of the VO is epistolary, with large portions taken from the letters Franz and Fani write to one another when he was in prison. For Malick, this is a very conventional style to employ, especially insofar as his VOs have been getting more and more abstract as his films have gone on. As for problems, as a Malick fanatic, I found very few. You know what you're getting with a Malick film, so complaining about the length (it's just shy of three hours) or the pace is kind of pointless. You know if you like how Malick paces his films, and if you found, for example, New World boring beyond belief, so too will you find Hidden Life. One thing I will say, though, there are a few scenes in the last act that are a little repetitive, giving us information we already have or hitting emotional beats we've already hit. It could also be argued that the film abstracts or flat-out ignores the real horrors of World War II, but that's by design. It isn't about those horrors, and Thin Red Line proves Malick has no problem showing man's inhumanity to man. The same is true for politics; much like 1917 (2019), Hidden Life is not about politics, so to accuse it of failing to address politics is to imply it's obliged to address politics. Which it most certainly is not. In the end, A Hidden Life left me profoundly moved, on a level that very, very few films have (Thin Red Line and Tree of Life amongst them). Less a film than a spiritual odyssey, if you're a Malick fan, you should be enraptured. I don't know if I'd necessarily call it a masterpiece, but it's certainly close and is easily the best film of 2019 that I've seen thus far (the fact that it missed out on a single Academy Award nomination is a commentary unto itself).

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A hidden life watch full length album. This movie was really good. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. Based on real events, from visionary writer-director Terrence Malick, A HIDDEN LIFE is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keeps his spirit alive. Please allow approximately 20 extra minutes for pre-show and trailers before the show starts. 2 hr 54 min PG13 Dec 13, 2019 Drama More Trailers and Videos for A Hidden Life.
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How about a story about the MILLIONS that fought against this regime? the millions that fought to save their brothers, neighbors and countrymen? oh, but that would be putting Poland in a good light. Can't do THAT, no way lol. The Austrian Franz J?gerst?tter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II. Director: Terrence Malick Writer: Terrence Malick Starring: August Diehl, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Nyqvist, J?rgen Prochnow, Bruno Ganz, Alexander Fehling Producers: Grant Hill, Charlie Woebcken, Christoph Fisser, Henning Molfenter ? See full cast & crew 13 fans 126 Blu-ray collections 3 Digital collections 5 iTunes collections 1 Prime collections 4 MA collections A?Hidden?Life Review Review by Brian Orndorf, December 18, 2019 There was once a lengthy period of time when writer/director Terrence Malick didn?t make any films. Now he?s issued his sixth release in the last decade. There?s a clear creative purge going on with the notoriously press-shy helmer, who?s been trying to lead with his efforts, not his explanations, resulting in a wildly uneven collection of semi-experimental endeavors that all share the same drive to merge dramatic poeticism with striking visual achievements. ?A Hidden Life? has no surprises, closely adhering to the Malick way of cinema, wandering through turmoil and thought over an extended ru.. more... 8. 5 832 Downfall 2004 7. 8 142 Sophie Scholl: The Final Days 2005 7. 5 775 Che: Part One 2008 7 1, 429 Jarhead 2005 7. 6 1, 123 The Dirty Dozen 1967 7 98 Overlord 1975 7. 1 185 Che: Part Two 2008 7. 2 1, 497 Rescue Dawn 2006 8. 7 1, 474 Paths of Glory 1957 6. 8 37 The Exception 2016 7. 4 134 Stalingrad 1993 5. 8 37 Cesar Chavez 2014 8. 3 2, 232 Patton 1970 8. 3 600 Army of Shadows 1969 8. 3 427 Grand Illusion 1937 8. 3 763 Generation Kill 2008 Show more titles ? Similar titles suggested by members Hacksaw Ridge 2016 Related products A Hidden Life (Soundtrack) $9. 99 See all related products ?.
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Auteur Terence Malick's brilliant A Hidden Life is just as beautifully photographed by DP Jorg Widmer as you'd expect from the acclaimed director. The Austrian countryside is mountain green and moody, but not really simple anymore for our heroes. Nazi conscientious objector Franz (August Diehl) and his wife knew much better times before he refused to swear allegiance to Hitler. The 3-hour depiction of their troubled life, right down to his imprisonment and execution, is ironically one of the most beautiful films of the year and one of the most disturbing. The contrast between the bucolic life and the imprisoned one is best served by beautiful landscapes juxtaposed with starkly cruel prisons. Malick succeeds at having us fall in love with the landscape and the heroic couple at the same time. Sometimes there seem to be short- lens anamorphic shots, with everything distorted but the center, emphasizing the loneliness of rebellion while the wide-shot landscapes offer hope of a better time sadly not to come soon enough. Don't be fooled by my exuberant appreciation of this romance gone bad, for it is a hard study of payment due for a man to have scruples, when it would have been easy for him to sign the oath but believe inside the opposite. It is not the dialogue that will put you squarely in support of the futile objection; it is the simplicity of Franz's devotion to what is good to do, and his wife's support of that as death knell. As might be expected, few fellow Austrians support Franz, and just as few Germans seemed to realize the horror that was Hitler. For those today who oppose autocrats, let this be a warning that necessary opposition to authority comes with a heavy payment.

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