Vida oculta

There are so many gorgeous shots...

...requires a level of concentration and openness to philosophical conundrums and random moments that most modern films don’t even bother asking for.

Diehl’s performance is a model of restraint; he more often imparts information by a look, a glance, the slump of his shoulders, than he does with a spoken word.

Malick links the lonely labour of working the land with the thanklessness of sainthood, asking questions about devotion, tradition and individual acts of resistance.

...the most engaged and urgent he [Malick] has been for ages.

Malick’s second film about the second world war is a highminded hymn...