Das weiße Band – The White Ribbon

What get’s on my nerves…

… to take the whole afternoon of from work in order to finally see The White Ribbon. Why? Because german cinemas are pretty bad. The movie is shown right now at the (actually quite beautiful) Caligari cinema in Wiesbaden and that’s it. Actually, I should have already seen it by 2009, if running shedules would be better. Hell, it’s probably one of the best, thrilling and reflective german movies of the last year and really no-one I talked to here, not even the movie geeks, even heared about it. Pity.

Then I fly over to Ireland realizing that more cinemas show The White Ribbon (in german!) over there then here. Hell, I even had to fly to Dublin to see the Kinski-documentary „Mein bester Freund“ two years ago. This time, I felt a little pain when drinking a pretty decent hot choccolat in the also decent Lighthous cinema in the smithfield district of Dublin listening to the people around me discussing about this „great german movie“, they just had seen. True, german movies can be a pain in the ass sometimes. But it’s a shame that movies with great idealism (don’t know about the story, yet) is getting seven more ignored by their own people. For Austrian director Michael Haneke’s sake, I hope, the Golden Globe award was at least good for something and gives „Das Weiße Band“ a new „Frühling“.

For now, i hopefully will already be in the cinema, when this post is launched by my WordPress system – and hopefully, the movie won’t disappoint me either. I’m quite sure, it won’t. The trailer alone already hits my nerve: