William ArnottThe Reader
February 19th 2009 07:33
It is time to discuss "The Reader". Up for five Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actress, this is another based on a best selling book. The film is either going to intrigue and rivet the interested viewer or perhaps leave those less interested a bit cold and distanced by the experience. Set during and in the aftermath of World War II in Germany, it basically tells the story of a school aged boy who embarks on a love affair with Hanna, Kate Winslet, an illiterate bus conductor who he reads to. But as the boy grows up to become a law student he finds himself a witness in a court room where Hanna is being prosecuted for war crimes. Ralph Fiennes plays the boy as an adult who is trying to reconcile his past. This film is pretty absorbing stuff, with Winslet and David Kross as the boy playing some very good parts here. I also think this is a very adult directed drama, but also think it is not a personal favorite.
It can have 3 out of 5.
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