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Film to see . "A Hidden Life"

I’m going to have to keep track of the wider release date for this, because it sounds interesting as heck.

Summarization via Vox:

“Set during World War II and based on a true story, A Hidden Life — the latest film from Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, Badlands, Days of Heaven) — is about Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who could have lived a prosperous life if he’d agreed to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler. But he refused. A Hidden Life is Malick’s most overtly political film and one of his most religious, urgent, and sometimes even uncomfortable because of what it says — to everyone, but specifically to Christians in places where they’re the majority — about the warp and weft of courage. It also seems designed to lodge barbs in a comfortable audience during an era of rising white nationalism. “

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/5/29/18633293/cannes-2019-best-movies-tarantino-parasite-lady-fire