The White Ribbon: 35mm screening
Tuesday 11 May 2021 from 6:20pm to 9:20pm
Join us at Dendy Newtown for our next special 35mm screening of 2009 Palme d'Or winner The White Ribbon.
From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter.
People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the centre cannot hold.