Review of The White Ribbon (2009) by Weisberger — 30 Jan 2011
Beautifully filmed and acted and directed, yet ultimately unsatisfying. The story of a small German village told years later by its schoolteacher, who recounts a series of unsettling events in the months prior to WWI.
The film centers primarily on the town's parson, the town's landowning baron,the town doctor, the schoolteacher and the children he teaches. Odd stuff happens and no one seems to know why. As the film slowly winds from one event to another we await resolution, but there is no satisfying moment of understanding or clarity, and all is left unsettled.
The characters are so odd that the Marty Feldman character from Young Frankenstein would have fit right in and provided some needed comic relief.
This review of The White Ribbon (2009) was written by Weisberger on 30 Jan 2011.
The White Ribbon has generally received very positive reviews.
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