The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band)

I think this is one of the best films ever made. I laugh for the first 25 minutes, thinking of Michael going to all of these lengths to talk about the events that lead to pre-War Germany. Then the scene happens where the older sister and the boy are in the kitchen and he…

Jim Cummings

It took me 24 hours to fully appreciate this film. Some things are so obviously gorgeous that you love them during the viewing: the cinematography, the pacing. But it can be difficult to distinguish the various plot points and characters, leading to confusion. While it…

Lise

a lovely little film about a lovely little village :-)

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At a Q&A, Michael Haneke explained that he first wrote The White Ribbon as a book almost ten years ago. Financiers weren't eager to produce the film, so he waited for the opportune moment. He told the audience that his choice to shoot the film in black and white was to get…

Allison M. 🌱

They say it takes a village to raise a child, but if it’s this village, I think I’ll go ahead and take my chances on my own, thank you.

Jerry

“I gave God a chance to kill me. He didn’t do it, so he’s pleased with me.” Tracing back the haunted beginning of an unconsciously developing evil, every moment in Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon carries the underlying horror of what we know will result from the societal…

braden

Carefully digging into the origins of what generally lets violence & cruelty seep into our society, The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band) is an elegantly crafted, meticulously shot & patiently narrated drama that's thought-provoking, disturbing & riveting at the same time, and…

cinemacl🎃wn

I'm not always in the mood for Hanake's often deliberately grueling brand of blunt novelistic psychological/metaphorical writing or pretentiously miserable and clinical "beauty has to suffer" observational style, but it felt right to wait this one out and clear up my…

Josh Lewis

Best decanted in tandem with The Zone of Interest to savor the acrid bouquet of youth as it ferments into grotesque shapes and distills into abominable beings through the vine of generational trauma.

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