![]() ![]() She calls him “Kid” and clearly an “oldness” afflicts her beyond her years. They embark on an affair with its own kind of feverish urgency.Īs part of their bedroom rituals, he starts to read to her from books by Mark Twain, Homer and Anton Chekhov. Upon recovering, he looks her up to thank her and is startled to find himself losing his virginity to her. Coming down with what he later learns is scarlet fever, he is helped home by a stranger, Hanna (Winslet). We’re swiftly conveyed back to 1958, when his younger self (very well played by David Kross) has a chance encounter that will forever affect him. The film opens in 1995 Berlin, where Ralph Fiennes plays aloof, emotionally numb attorney Michael Berg. But since we first meet her in an entirely different light, as a kind, loving and passionate woman, it explores the challenges of this second generation in navigating a welter of deeply psychological and morally complex issues. The Reader, based on Bernhard Schlink’s controversial German novel, deliberately places a Holocaust perpetrator at the story’s focal point. 10, expands Christmas Day and goes national Jan. But German postwar guilt is not the most winning subject matter for the holiday season. The lively, nonlinear structure imposed by screenwriter David Hare and tight, focused direction from Stephen Daldry make this an engaging period drama. ![]() Certainly The Reader, for all its erotic scenes involving Kate Winslet, presents a difficult marketing challenge. ![]()
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