A Hidden Life (2019)

Awards
- 8 wins & 27 nominations

Trivia
Terrence Malick spent almost three years editing this film.

Quotes
Closing Title Card: ...the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. -George Eliot

Crazy credits
The title card at the end of the picture comes from the final sentence of George Eliot's "Middlemarch".

Connections
Featured in Amanda the Jedi Show: 'Faster than your First Time' Reviews (Joker, Jojo Rabbit, Lucy in the Sky and everything else) (2019)

Soundtracks
St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Kommt, ihr Töchter
Written by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (as Bach Collegium Stuttgart) and Gächinger Kantorei (as Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart) with Helmuth Rilling
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment (Germany) GmbH
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment

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Review

Featured review

5/10

Worthy -- but not for three hours

I like slow, absorbing films as much as the next guy. But really, this should NOT be a three-hour film. You do feel something for the characters. But the film is not that well executed. There doesn't seem to be enough background to the story -- we don't see, as one might expect. a protagonist with historical ties to the land, with deep-seated friendships and relationships that are tested. And the wrestling of his soul is protracted yet also seems somehow light and not consequential. But the length is my biggest gripe. A two-hour movie would have been better.