White Ribbon
Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winning film is a beautifully shot meditation on hypocrisy, repression and powerlessness set in a world about to change forever.
Reading time: 2 mins
this is a long, slow film: it’s strong, thought provoking filmmaking with no easy answers and no glib conclusions. Haneke likes to pose thought experiments for his audience and it’s easy in our – relatively – free thinking times to think of this film as purely historical drama. However when the lights come up and you leave the cinema you are left asking how often do you question authority.