Category: Sight & Sound magazine subscription
Sight & Sound magazine subscription holders will this month notice the bearded, bespectacled face of Michael Haneke on the front cover.
Within its pages, the publication looks at the Austrian's latest work The White Ribbon and questions whether there is "a new softness" to his work.
The director has returned somewhat to his roots, recalling cast members from his past such as Branko Samarovski - who appeared in Fragments of a Chronology of Chance - and Susanne Lothar, who starred alongside Samarovski in The Castle.
It is also a return to German-language filming for Haneke, with the 143-minute movie set in a north German village in the months preceding the beginning of World War II.
The director won the coveted Palme d'Or for the piece, which is shot in monochrome and has a certain black-and-white morality to match, the magazine suggested.
Also in this month's edition, readers will find out why Jane Campion wanted to do something different with Bright Star - based on Andrew Motion's Keats biography.
Get the latest from the official British Film Institute magazine here. 