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most intelligent filmmaking of the year.
How did Germany, inarguably the most intellectually sophisticated of European countries, pre-WWI, become the home of the Nazi juggernaut?
Haneke trains his microscope on a small German town reeling from a series of inexplicable, seemingly insolvable, and savage crimes. In doing so, he exposes the feudal and highly religious society for its hypocrisy, though the working class fares little better than the leadership in his tortured saga.
The acting is nothing short of miraculous: from the youngest child to the paterfamilias, this is astonishing ensemble playing, far too rare in today's cinema. I left the cinema angered at the director, feeling manipulated and pushed but, after some reflection, I realized the cleverness and the skill with which I was beaten about the head.
This is a film with a level of skill few modern directors can match--- one must look backward to Bresson and Dreyer to find such effortlessness and simplicity (Kiarastomi, a director Haneke has widely praised, is a more modern example though the "foreignness" of his subjects lead me to exclude him, ultimately).
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Topic - "The White Ribbon:" Michael Haneke's film will upset and disgust you but it's the - tinear 15:27:02 03/13/10 (16)
- RE: "The White Ribbon:" Michael Haneke's film will upset and disgust you but it's the - patrickU 07:12:51 03/14/10 (15)
- Don't turn into late. What do you mean? nt - tinear 10:58:39 03/14/10 (14)
- RE: No Danger. - patrickU 14:42:18 03/14/10 (13)
- Dresden: unsophisticated? C'mon, Pat, you can do better. nt - tinear 17:47:54 03/14/10 (12)
- RE: %ยง%&# - patrickU 04:39:28 03/15/10 (11)
- Let's discuss: you're claiming intellectual center was Berlin, no argument. If you say it was the only - tinear 18:05:43 03/15/10 (10)
- RE: Let's discuss: Remember we are speaking at the time before the last war. - patrickU 01:40:51 03/16/10 (9)
- Don't be silly. Remove London and what has England got, intellectually? Or Paris from France? - tinear 07:57:53 03/16/10 (8)
- RE: Look- It is a fact- - patrickU 08:56:51 03/16/10 (7)
- Patrick, it was my contention that Germany was the intellectual and cultural center. You then - tinear 12:58:27 03/16/10 (0)
- "Let's Discuss" = "Don't be silly" ............it - afilado 11:28:31 03/16/10 (5)
- Stuttgart, Dresden, Bayreuth, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf.... since you've decided to - tinear 13:04:17 03/16/10 (3)
- Here's a new formula....... - afilado 14:47:15 03/16/10 (2)
- Man, you're in a nice mood. "Win at any cost????" Yeah, calling - tinear 16:13:26 03/16/10 (1)
- Old formula; sound....New formula.... - afilado 19:41:40 03/16/10 (0)
- RE: "Let's Discuss" = "Don't be silly" ............it - patrickU 12:18:41 03/16/10 (0)
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