The White Ribbon (2009)
(Das Weisse Band)
Country: GER/ÖST/FR/IT
Technical: bw 144m
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur, Ursina Lardi, Burghart Klaussner
Synopsis:
Germany, 1913-14: in a rural village sinister accidents and mutilations begin to occur, which might be seen to happen in tandem with patriarchal tyrannies and perversions. They are never solved, but appear to have been perpetrated by the children.
Review:
The black and white recalls the cinema of Theodor Dreyer, the socio-political subtext Haneke's earlier film Caché. An added ambiguity is afforded by the fact that all is related by a possibly partial narrator, a schoolteacher from outside the village. It is a supremely intense and unsettling experience, but one in which one does not really notice the time pass, save for the seasons in the film.
(Das Weisse Band)
Country: GER/ÖST/FR/IT
Technical: bw 144m
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur, Ursina Lardi, Burghart Klaussner
Synopsis:
Germany, 1913-14: in a rural village sinister accidents and mutilations begin to occur, which might be seen to happen in tandem with patriarchal tyrannies and perversions. They are never solved, but appear to have been perpetrated by the children.
Review:
The black and white recalls the cinema of Theodor Dreyer, the socio-political subtext Haneke's earlier film Caché. An added ambiguity is afforded by the fact that all is related by a possibly partial narrator, a schoolteacher from outside the village. It is a supremely intense and unsettling experience, but one in which one does not really notice the time pass, save for the seasons in the film.
(Das Weisse Band)
Country: GER/ÖST/FR/IT
Technical: bw 144m
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur, Ursina Lardi, Burghart Klaussner
Synopsis:
Germany, 1913-14: in a rural village sinister accidents and mutilations begin to occur, which might be seen to happen in tandem with patriarchal tyrannies and perversions. They are never solved, but appear to have been perpetrated by the children.
Review:
The black and white recalls the cinema of Theodor Dreyer, the socio-political subtext Haneke's earlier film Caché. An added ambiguity is afforded by the fact that all is related by a possibly partial narrator, a schoolteacher from outside the village. It is a supremely intense and unsettling experience, but one in which one does not really notice the time pass, save for the seasons in the film.