August Diehl is quite marvellous in the lead, playing a dignified soul who never wavers an inch in his beliefs; Detailed and authentic, and never overstretching itself, "A Hidden Life" is a profoundly beautiful movie
"A Hidden Life" is everything Terrence Malick's devotees could want from a movie: beautiful, poetic, hewing closely (particularly at the end) to films like "Days of Heaven" and "Tree of Life"