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Immaculately crafted in beautiful black-and-white and entirely absorbing through its longish running time, Michael Haneke‘s “The White Ribbon” nonetheless proves a difficult film to entirely ...

Shot in a luscious black and white (replete with stunningly ... German after a series of successful films in French, “The White Ribbon” depicts life in a small Protestant village in northern ...

The small, north German hamlet in “The White Ribbon” looks like a pristine rural paradise. The buildings are handsome structures, photographed in black and white. It’s very much a dollhouse ...

Shot in black and white, which serves as both a statement ... But accidents are very much at the heart of “The White Ribbon.” As the narrator of this tale explains as the film begins, there ...

The titular ribbon is a physical one ... This surface of innocence is echoed in the film’s plainly framed black-and-white cinematography, which appear to show us everything that’s occurring ...

Michael Haneke’s black-and-white period drama ... after he’s viciously caned his children, his wife ties a white ribbon on each of them to remind them of their newly won innocence and purity.