Starring Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur, Ursina Lardi, Burghart Klaussner, Steffi Kuhnert

Directed by Michael Haneke

★★★★

Michael Haneke makes films that make you meditate hard on their subject matter; indeed, some would say that they demand it. Dark and uncomfortable themes were explicitly dealt with in The Piano Teacher and Funny Games and to a degree The White Ribbon is not much different. It is the number of small, subtle differences however, that make this his most accomplished work to date. Continue reading The White Ribbon →