Valerie Pachner

Review of A Hidden Life: Terrence Malick’s best work since Tree of Life?

Starring August Diehl, Valerie Pachner Written & Directed by Terrence Malick Rating:*** ½ (3 and a half stars) Many cineastes regard Terrence Malick among the most influential and powerful living directors. His Tree Of Life features in almost every critic’s all-time greatest lists. I have never been a major Malick fan. His over-long films are self-indulgent, distracted, unfocused works of splashy art. There is an abundance of visual resplendence in Malick often at the cost of the characters. His latest work, a punishing 3-hour excursion adding up to | Click Here...