BesondersWeg

Yesterday I went to see Michael Haneke’s new film, Das weisse Band [The White Ribbon] in the theater. At the beginning of the film, the title appears, and then the subtitle is written beneath it, just like on the film poster.

The women behind me couldn’t figure out what the subtitle said. One of them said loudly that it had been eighty years since anybody in her family had written like that, and the other said said she suspected it started with “eine,” but after that it was anyone’s guess.

I, on the other hand, spent a large chunk of the spring of 2008 with this workbook for just this reason, so that I could relish a few moments of feeling competent at the movies.

(Great film, too. You should go see it when it comes out. Very elegant, restrained, I already want to go back and see it again now that I’m looking for clues to the unexpected parts of the ending. Which I won’t say anything about.)