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"The White Ribbon:" Michael Haneke's film will upset and disgust you but it's the

Posted by tinear on March 13, 2010 at 15:27:02:
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).