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2019-12-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Film review: In Austria's Alps, 'A Hidden Life' Of World War II Resistance
[NPR] Three years ago, a small film crew drove into the Austrian Alps in search of a remote valley. It would serve as one of the settings for Terrence Malick's vision of paradise.

"We'd taken a big, big risk when we decided to go," says the film's producer Grant Hill. "We had next to no funds. [We] felt, for some reason, we'd work that out as we went along ‐ which, I wouldn't advise doing it again that way, but it worked. And this combination of the mountain background, the faces on the people, the weather really did ‐ I mean, it was otherworldly."

The film came to be called A Hidden Life. It's based on the letters of an Austrian farmer who refused to fight for the Nazis ‐ and was executed for his resistance.

It's the latest film from acclaimed director Terrence Malick. He's known for epic movies like The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life. Like those films, Malick's latest is about grand themes like love, faith and war.

A Hidden Life opens in the dark with nature sounds. The screen then comes to life: mountain valleys, waterfalls, rivers flowing, clouds rolling.

Actor Valerie Pachner is from Austria. She's one of the stars of the film.

"There is this incredibly beautiful landscape," Pachner says. "But on the other hand there's also a certain darkness to it. And I always feel like ‐ you know, there is these beautiful mountains, but then you have those very dark forests. And then when you think about the second World War, I feel like there's always sort of both, in nature. And that's what I feel Terry [Malick] really captured so well."

Terence Malick made the film with cinematographer Joerg Widmer.

Official trailer at this link.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-24 01:21|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 Should be very interesting - Malick makes beautiful and weird movies, and he translated Heidegger in college. Wonder what he'll make out of the lands east of Eagle's Nest.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-24 01:34||   2019-12-24 01:34|| Front Page Top

#2 The thin red line has to be in the top 10 of sucky war films.
Posted by Bman 2019-12-24 16:34||   2019-12-24 16:34|| Front Page Top

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