Join the Grand Rapids Art Museum and the Grand Rapids Film Society for a screening of Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life (2019). Runtime: 2h 53m
6 pm Social hour
7 pm Movie start time
This event is free to the public. Registration is required.
“Cinema at its mightiest and holiest,” says critic Owen Gleiberman of this film. “A cathedral of the senses.” A criminally under-seen (and recent) masterpiece, Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life (2019) is a culmination of a lifetime dedicated to a singular cinematic vision devoted to grace, life, spirit, morality, celestialitiy, and love. The film tells the true story of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who refused to swear allegiance to Hitler during World War II — an act of defiance, seemingly inconsequential against the magnitude of the régime of the Nazis, whose moral stance and dedication to the goodness of the world ripples through his small community, becoming a colossal inquiry into the cost of righteousness and decency in a corrupted world. A Hidden Life is Malick’s most direct and devotional work, and is a testament to the sanctity of integrity, love, and nature in the face of seemingly immovable evil.
The movies in this series were made by an artist, creating films within his particular historical moment and for an adult audience. Please research these well-documented films if you are concerned about their content.
For more information, contact Associate Curator, Terra Warren at twarren@artmuseumgr.org
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