Hitchcoc It will take me a long time to get this film out of my brain. We are brought into a community where a baron runs things, almost the entire village affected by his whims. He lives with his young wife and children. She hates it there and the kids are accepted grudgingly by their peers. In the village are a harsh Protestant minister, a schoolteacher, a doctor, and other figures of fierce authority, plus quite a group of children who have lived in oppressive conditions. We are mad privy to the humorless village where no one smiles and where common people live in fear of the future. Religion is presented as a venomous and ugly thing. The minister's children are routinely beaten and humiliated for their "sins" including an awful diatribe on the results of masturbation (sores, mental illness, and death). The boy is forced to sleep with his hands tied to the sides of the bed. It becomes likely that all this oppression is going to ultimately lead to some pretty bad results. Visually, this film is striking in its utter blackness.

Kirpianuscus a film about the roots of evil. precise. fascinating. using the terror in a special manner. a village. and few crimes. the children's faces. the adults ambiguity. and the tension like a fog. a film who reminds Ingmar Bergman's universe but who propose a different perspective about the angry who change, step by step, the life of a community for remind the truth about it. an useful parable about the evil who grow up in the middle of serenity. and a splendid film in which each scene becomes key for define the every day reality. a parable. not original but useful. because it is picture of fury who seems be part of accidents in ordinary place. and who becomes the rule.

Lione M It's quite different from what is usually seen on screens. It's one of the films unique, original in everything. From the point of view of the subject, it's almost hermetically - everyone will understand as much as you can; the aesthetic, the film enchants you with poetic black and white, photography; directing: a masterpiece. And there's also the possible meanings that even if you can not catch on entirely, all you felt you mustiind in this film worthy of the Palme d'Or and learned that last year (2009) . The key to the logic of this film seems to be the film Das Weisse Band that also a parable be taken to refer to dark period of German history the two world wars. Ethics fanatical, extreme guilt and masochistic degeneration odious faces appear in this film. There are scenes of horrific abuse and outrageous verbal and physical cruelty here: but that without proper insist on showing their actual ... bloody images: everything is settled and finesse but also strongly represented in these respects intellectual . White Ribbon movie title, had to gauger children's innocence Germany. But it appears innocence lost and lead to atrocities and disasters of historic proportions. By demonetizing children and young people, due to slippages fatal mentality and morality of parents, this movie is in lineage ideation and Demons famous novel, Dostoevsky's. Michael Haneke maybe wanted to capture in this film as a parable, hideous psychology of fascism, or fanaticism in general, then the decay of a culture reached a point of self-sufficiency and superficiality seriously dehumanizing. Very interesting is the anthropological vision of the film, with rural customs and mentality specific prewar Germany.

Jackson Booth-Millard Directed by Michael Haneke (Funny Games (both versions), Hidden (Caché), Amour), this German/Italian/Polish film was listed in the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die book, it was rated well by critics, and I was hoping it would be worthy of recommendations. Basically in 1913, fifteen years before the breakout of the First World War, in the small Protestant village of Eichwald, Germany, a series of mysterious and unfortunate incidents are taking place. These occurrences include rider is thrown from their horse after it tripped on a wire, rotted planks cause a woman to fall to her death, the son of The Baron (Ulrich Tukur) is hung upside down in a mill, parents of village children are slapping and bullying their own offspring, a man is being cruel to his long-suffering lover, another man sexually abuses his own daughter, and many people disappearing. The School Teacher (Christian Friedel), who is immature and inexperienced, and is courting a nanny of the Baron's household, is narrating the story as an Old Man (Ernst Jacobi) and investigating the cause and connection of these accidents and crimes. There are pubescent children in the village with guilty consciences, The Pastor (Burghart Klaußner), he tries to reassure them, and gets them to wear a white ribbon, as a sign of the innocence and purity, but these children may in fact be the cause and at the heart of these strange circumstances, and it can only end badly for many characters. Also starring Leonie Benesch as Eva, Ursina Lardi as Marie-Louise, The Baroness, Fion Mutert as Sigi, Michael Kranz as The Tutor, Steffi Kühnert as Anna, The Pastor's Wife and Maria-Victoria Dragus as Klara. With having to read subtitles as well I did get very confused with this film, I did see the strange things happening and characters getting suspicious and paranoid, but I'm not sure I can fully agree with critics giving the film four stars out of five, or it being in the 1001 Movies book, however, it is not a bad film, it was interesting in parts, so overall it's an alright period mystery drama. It was nominated the Oscars for Best Cinematography and Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, it was nominated the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language, and it won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. Worth watching, in my opinion!