This week's DVD and Blu-ray reviews

The White Ribbon DVD & Blu-ray, Artificial Eye With Hidden, Michael Haneke figured out a way to make a mystery even more mysterious. Rather than being tidy and explicit, Haneke just hinted at things to the extent that the audience didn't even know what the pivotal event was, let alone who was to blame. He takes a similar notion here and runs even further with it. Set in a rural German village, pre-first world war, rendered in crisp black and white, it begins with the local doctor being injured when his horse is tripped by a wire strung across the path. It's clearly been done on purpose, but by whom and why? And was the doctor even the intended target? Over the subsequent months a woman is killed when she falls into machinery, the local baron's young son is kidnapped and given a humiliating beating, a barn burns to the ground. And on it goes. Are these random acts? A cruel masterplan? Or just plain bad luck? Haneke treats this as a story with the plot removed, leaving it for the audience to work out the connections – or not, as the case may be. The town's reaction to these events, from denial to outright anger, is what provides the meat. It's a move that makes every character important. The easiest and most obvious interpretation is that this suspicion and fear led to Nazism. The children of the village would have been adults in the second world war. The whole story is presented as recounted memories after the fact – memory being an unreliable record where truth is concerned. An Education Carey Mulligan's breakout role, as a schoolgirl growing up fast in 1960s London. DVD & Blu-ray, E1 Bright Star Jane Campion does justice to John Keats's literally incurable romanticism. DVD, Fox Mister Lonely Harmony Korine's disarmingly odd impersonator tale, starring Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe, sort of. DVD, ICA Films Julie & Julia Meryl Streep leads a comedy of culinary competence. DVD & Blu-ray, Sony Look At Life Vintage documentary newsreels from the 1960s, capturing London at its most swingingest. DVD, Network