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At last.
At last, we watched The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band), a movie we’d been planning on seeing for several weeks but could manage only this past Sunday in Philadelphia.
By now, the chattering classes must surely have heard of this German film, which won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009 and raised Austrian director Michael Haneke’s status further, an elevation the respected director was in no need of given the pedigree of his work.
Of course, here at the SI blog we’re no strangers to Michael Haneke, whose 2001 film The Piano Teacher we watched to great delight eight months back.
The Non-Avatar
A grim un-Avatarish black and white film set in a North German village Eichwald a year before the start of that first Great War, The White Ribbon is a disturbing movie about disturbing happenings that disturb the lives of people in the seemingly placid rural surroundings.
As with most things in life what is is seldom what it appears as.
And so it is in our village too.
You see, beneath the calm waters of everyday life in the village run swift undercurrents of violence. Continue reading »
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