Apr 10th
The Reader** (15)
Prince Charles Cinema
Berlin, 1958: a young law student has a passionate affair with a helpful but illiterate tram conductor, whom he later discovers was also an Extermination Camp guard at Auschwitz.
Sad, thought-provoking coming-of-age drama, about guilty secrets - secret sex, secret history, secret illiteracy, etc. - and daring to pose the dilemma of an inherently nice person doing evil things. The moral complexities of the novel (across a 40-year timespan) are hard to fully get across on film, but nonetheless skilfully made in all departments, asking that perennial question for Germans in post-WWII: "What would you have done?"
d: Stephen Daldry
s: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Lena Olin, Alexander Maria Lara
Stephen Daldry interview (Newsnight)
The Reader** (15)
Prince Charles Cinema
Berlin, 1958: a young law student has a passionate affair with a helpful but illiterate tram conductor, whom he later discovers was also an Extermination Camp guard at Auschwitz.
Sad, thought-provoking coming-of-age drama, about guilty secrets - secret sex, secret history, secret illiteracy, etc. - and daring to pose the dilemma of an inherently nice person doing evil things. The moral complexities of the novel (across a 40-year timespan) are hard to fully get across on film, but nonetheless skilfully made in all departments, asking that perennial question for Germans in post-WWII: "What would you have done?"
d: Stephen Daldry
s: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Lena Olin, Alexander Maria Lara
Stephen Daldry interview (Newsnight)
posted by Joe at 10:08 AM
1 Comments:
Just saw this tonight, really excellent flick. That kid did a great job. Kate weren't bad neither.
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