A Hidden Life's reviews
Media reviews
The Telegraph
If you?re an admirer of Malick?s poetic investigations into the mysteries of existence, faith and our tragic disconnection to the natural world, A Hidden Life will leave you enraptured and profoundly moved.
The Playlist
The Tree of Life spanned eons to capture the entirety of existence, and while the filmmaker works on a tighter four-year canvas this time around, the feeling that the stakes are nothing less than the soul of all humanity has persisted. This is art of salvation.
Indiewire
'A Hidden Life' is a lucid and profoundly defiant portrait of faith in crisis.
Los Angeles Times
It?s at once a linear, almost classically structured drama and an exploratory, intensely romantic work of art.
Variety
Whether or not he is specifically referring to the present day, its demagogues, and the way certain evangelicals have once again sold out their core values for political advantage, ?A Hidden Life? feels stunningly relevant as it thrusts this problem into the light.
The Wrap
A Hidden Life is certainly the director?s best movie since his 2011 Palme d?Or winner ?The Tree of Life? ? it?s his most monumental film since then, and perhaps his most sentimental film ever. And it is also slow and meditative, requiring viewers to sink into and surrender to that particular Malick style that some find maddening.
Time Out
Diehl and Pachner are both terrific, mastering Malick?s improvisational style and bringing earthy authenticity to its playful family moments.
The Hollywood Reporter
Unfortunately, instead of embracing the weighty moral, religious and political components of the story, Malick has alternately deflected and minimized them.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote