"This is among the most luminous and painterly of black-and-white films, but what's portrayed will shock or numb you." - TIME Magazine
"A severe and eerily beautiful German-language drama by Michael Haneke..." - Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
"Immaculately crafted in beautiful black-and-white and entirely absorbing through its longish running time." - Todd McCarthy, Variety
in peak form)."-Rolling Stone
Controversy-courting director Michael Haneke (CACHÉ) earned the Palm d’Or at Cannes in 2009 for this arresting drama set just before World War I. In a small German village, a number of unexplained accidents beset the schoolchildren and their parents. Though they at first appear coincidental, it begins to seem that they are not, in fact, accidents at all. view trailer
