The Reader
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- Synopsis
- Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes star in The Hours director Stephen Daldry's haunting period drama concerning the relationship between a 15-year-old German boy and a mysterious woman twice his age, and the way that it grows doubly complex when the man ......
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- Starring
- Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Matthias Habich
- Director(s)
- Stephen Daldry
- Distributor(s)
- Weinstein Company
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 123 min.
Critic Reviews
Kross and Winslet's intense performances and Daldry's deliberately placid control of tone make the material work as a love (and hate) story as well as a metaphor.Read the full review
The crucial decision in The Reader is made by a 24-year-old youth, who has information that might help a woman about to be sentenced to life in prison, but withholds it. He is ashamed to reveal his affair with this woman. By making this decision, he shifts the film's focus from the subject of German guilt about the Holocaust and turns it on the human race in general.Read the full review
Though the effort is uneven, it's a well-acted romance that becomes a less compelling courtroom drama.Read the full review
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