Il nastro bianco

Fascism, Repression and “The White Ribbon”

IT was a Thursday evening at this year’s New York Film Festival, and a polyglot audience of several hundred cinephiles, trending toward the young and smartly dressed, was wondering aloud about the depravities of north German villagers almost a century ago. The occasion was a public conversation at Lincoln Center with the much-lauded Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke. The subjects of the audience’s curiosity were the characters in his most recent film, “The White Ribbon”: winner of the Palme d’Or and the international critics’ prize at the 2009 Cannes festival and a prominent if un-holiday-like item among America’s year-end prestige pictures (set to open Dec. [...]

di Stuart Klawans, articolo completo (9403 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 30 Ottobre