The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke

The White Ribbon is one of those rare films, where so much of the story is told through the images you are seeing, even with the use of voiceover.

It really is an astounding film, that will haunt you for days to come. No wonder it won the Golden Palm at last years Cannes film festival.

The first half is a little laboured (but I don't know whether it was the film or because I was soaking wet from the rain I had to fight through to get to the cinema and was freezing my arse of for the first half) and certainly takes it's time. But the second half really hits you in the gut.

Directed by Michael Haneke with wonderful restraint. He really allows the audience to find these characters and place their own sort of judgement on them. The film was shot in colour and transferred into beautiful black and white and you could never tell.

This really is a special film that was lucky not to pick up the Best Oscar for Foreign Film but lost out to The Secret In Their Eyes which will be released in the next few weeks. Which I am also looking forward to.

To all those who read this you should really go and see The White Ribbon. It gives a compelling insight into the people that would be responsible for World War II. This is a war film but one like you have never seen.

Thank you to Michael Haneke for giving us a truly unique perspective into something that I thought I knew all there was to know.