I really like the music used in the first section of the trailer for Samson and Delilah (with the out-of-tune violin). I wonder if that's music from the film. (Trailers often use music from other sources.)

Australian movies don't fare all that well here either. There were 50 feature films made in Australia last year and only a handful got any decent exposure here. The movie 'Australia' was a rare exception and that was because of the Hollywoodisation of the film. Our top ten box office films are almost a mirror image of the American box office.

It was wrong to say that The White Ribbon is a rehash of Les Choristes.

The story isn't the same at all.  It was just the basis of the choir in both films, and the worked-up drama toward it..... that is something personally unappreciated..... but others probably like this sort of thing.  Having not liked Les Choristes at all, there was already two strikes against this film before viewing it last Thursday night.  Maybe "Das weiße Band" deserves better credit, just not from here.

The jury awarded the grand prize to this film because it is well-acted, (and well-directed), but you have to like this theme and a plot of this sort in order to appreciate the movie.  Hence, the reasons for the aforementioned negativity regarding it.