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Terrence Malick’s World War II Drama Unearths ‘A Hidden Life’ to Devastating Effect

Early in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life, an Austrian farmer named Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl) chats with a painter busy decorating a church with scenes from scripture. The artist laments that he must offer the faithful a “comfortable Christ” because he can’t capture the more unsettling qualities that he intuits in Jesus’ sacrifice. “How can […]

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