The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
The White Ribbon
When
Wed 16 Apr 2025
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Haneke’s first Cannes Palme d’Or winner focuses on the recollections of a schoolteacher (Christian Friedel) working in a German village in the final days before World War I.
An astonishing catalogue of bilious, selfish, destructive behaviours, Haneke’s film methodically details the residue of centuries of feudalism, using Bergmanesque monochrome imagery to frame a polity of unrelenting toxicity, where violence is so deeply embedded in the fabric of community that it seems almost perfunctory to look for a perpetrator.
The film’s perfectly calibrated ensemble features Leonie Benesch, Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur, Burghart Klaussner and Rainer Bock.
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