The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.30pm
This is a 35mm screening, part of the Michael Haneke season at the Prince Charles Cinema.
Chicago Reader review:
Michael Haneke's black-and-white period drama, which won
the Palme d'Or at the Cannes festival in 2009, has been described as a
treatise on the root causes of German fascism. I'll leave that to the
historians, but there's no denying this is a coldly commanding tale in
which Haneke's signature obsessions—bourgeois control, sexual
repression, emotional cruelty, cathartic violence—simmer quietly as
subtext before bursting into the open in the final reels. On the eve of
World War I, a northern village seems quiet and sedate but secretly
roils with, as one character puts it, "malice, envy, apathy, and
brutality." The title refers to the custom of a strict father who's
respected in the community: after he's viciously caned his children, his
wife ties a white ribbon on each of them to remind them of their newly
won innocence and purity.
JR Jones
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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