Filmed in black and white this film gives you the feeling that bad things are going to happen right from the start....and they do. Dark and sinister it puts you on edge and keeps you there wondering what is next. An excellent film if you're in the right mood for it.

Gorgeous cinematography. Long disturbing drama. One tender love beautifully captured and numerous brutal & shocking abuses.

Awesome. Though it was long, it didn't feel that way. One of the most memorable films I've ever saw.

Powerful, unsettling film about the way we treat each other. Watch with patience and an open mind.

Like listening to a twelve-year-old playing Bach. Made a few years earlier and they could've kept the chess set.

I liked how many characters there were. All of the characters' actions are filled with unpleasantness, so having many characters makes it about the pervasiveness of evil as opposed to a portrait of a specific evil person.

Wonderful mystery where the search and implications are much more important than any solution. There's a lot of examinations of behavioural influences and generational relationships, done in a way that's intriguing and doesn't feel as didactic, quite a feat for Haneke. And it's well shot too, so it's a pleasure to watch and to ponder about for days.

It's been a while since I fell asleep in a movie. All the bits that moved the story forward could have been told in 30 minutes instead of the 150 or so that is this sleeping pill. I felt like I was sitting in a museum documentary at times...

Beautifully shot, it is the haunting ambiguity of this that will either infuriate or be it's main selling point. Superb acting, especially from the kids.

It lefts a nice, deep riddle for the audience to ponder about a long time.

I have the feeling that "The White Ribbon" is a love it or hate it experience. I firmly fell on the side of 'love it'! There is no doubt watching this film is a commitment, & a grueling one at that! It will either grab you within the first 10 minutes, or you will spend 2 & a bit hours desperate for it to end. Understated but disturbing this is a beautiful, haunting, brilliantly performed movie. Its open-endedness will leave some feeling robbed & others just with intriguing questions.

This is perfect piece of art, but also a way how to get 100 years back in time for 2 hours - the movie was realistic in each detail. But it is also very depressive - not for people like me who prefer to relax with a movie. BTW. the genres are not correct in movie description - the war and mystery are not important in this movie.

great