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The White Ribbon
By Emily Ackerman | March 4, 2010The White Ribbon's style leaves audience members to be voyeurs of the film’s forbidding feudal world until Haneke reveals its place in historicity.
The White Ribbon's style leaves audience members to be voyeurs of the film’s forbidding feudal world until Haneke reveals its place in historicity.
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