ACADEMY AWARD^® NOMINEE – BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

From the writer and director of CACHE

MICHAEL HANEKE’S

"ONE OF THE BEST PICTURES OF THE YEAR."
– Stephen Holden, The New York Times
– Richard Corliss, Time Magazine

“Subtle, understated, precise and marvelously resonant. Superbly scripted, shot and performed.” – Geoff Andrew, Sight & Sound magazine

“Haneke’s most approachable film…his most beautiful…and his best.” – Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

"Reaffirms Haneke as the leading European filmmaker of his generation. It feels like a classic even as you are watching it for the first time."
– Scott Foundas, LA Weekly


“A completely absorbing experience.” – Gavin Smith, Film Comment

“A superb cinematic work!” – Peter Brunette, The Hollywood Reporter

“Impeccably acted, and directed with this filmmaker’s icily exact rigor and severity…
THE WHITE RIBBON has an absolute confidence and mastery of its own cinematic language, and the performances
Haneke elicits from his first-rate case, particularly the children, are eerily perfect.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK)

“Immaculately crafted in beautiful black-and-white and entirely absorbing.” – Todd McCarthy, Variety


“An astonishing sense of time and place…so rich, so detailed and so full of telling relationships
and behavior that you feel you have gained an understanding of the very essence of these people.”
– Dave Calhoun, Time Out (London)

"A tale of the past that points to the future; a picture that will be viewed and discussed for decades to come."
– Xan Brooks, The Guardian (London)

In German with English subtitles • Sony Pictures Classics

• Official Website
• Stuart Klawans's New York Times feature article about the film
• Sam Adams's interview w/Haneke for The Onion A/V Club

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