Michael Haneke’s THE WHITE RIBBON Photos
Whether or not it gets a best picture Academy Award or BAFTA nomination, Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or-winning The White Ribbon may end up as the best-reviewed film of 2009. At least in the United Kingdom.
“It is typical of Haneke, though, that he makes such strong suggestions so indirectly and purely through the sheer brilliant, precise power of his characterisations and superb conjuring up of an astonishing sense of time and place.” Dave Calhoun, Time Out
“The White Ribbon has an absolute confidence and mastery of its own cinematic language, and the performances Haneke elicits from his first-rate cast, particularly the children, are eerily perfect.” Peter Bradshaw, Guardian.co.uk
“White Ribbon“s made from material that haunts, grips and immerses." Totalfilm.com
“A visually stunning thinkpiece.” [...]
by Joan Lister | October 23, 2009
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Tags: Artificial Eye, Michael Haneke, Photos, Susanne Lothar, The White Ribbon, Ulrich Tukur
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We then follow Maloin to his home, where Tarr offers some great scenes of him trying to sleep and dreaming of the prior night. We also see his protectiveness toward his daughter, Henriette (Erika Bok), and his arguments with his nameless wife (played by Swinton), who comes off as a typical harridan. All of these scenes, no matter how well filmed, feel tired and repetitive. By contrast, in Tarr’s earlier Satantango, Erika Bok plays a small girl who violently wrestles with and kills her cat. Despite the ugly nature of that sequence, it elucidates both Bok’s character and one of that film’s major plot points and themes. No such corresponding [...]
by Dan Schneider | August 3, 2009
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Tags: Artificial Eye, Béla Tarr, DVDs, Erika Bok, Film Reviews, Mystery Movies, The Man from London, Tilda Swinton
