So, just another film of the grandmaster of human squalidness, Prof. Sigmund Haneke. This time, the setting is before the Great War, and the subtitle "Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte", a german children's tale, insinuates, that Prof. Haneke wants the story to be as a kind of paradigm or template for the psychological conditions of children during that period.
Unsurprisingly for Haneke, about all children in this film are bad, devious, malicious, envious, lying in one or the other way. The inklings to rituals of the bad deeds speak about Haneke, not about children.
The film is nicely photographed and smoothly put into action. Mr. Haneke knows, how to sell things, he has been very successful in making a living by declaring and preaching the abysses of human mind. Yawn.
Unsurprisingly for Haneke, about all children in this film are bad, devious, malicious, envious, lying in one or the other way. The inklings to rituals of the bad deeds speak about Haneke, not about children.
The film is nicely photographed and smoothly put into action. Mr. Haneke knows, how to sell things, he has been very successful in making a living by declaring and preaching the abysses of human mind. Yawn.
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