The Reader : The Amazing Kate Winslet
What an expressive face Kate Winslet has! I was just saying when I got curious and decided to see whether others agree with me. The LA Times has said exactly this: it’s Kate Winslet’s face and her haunting performance that makes this movie happen. It’s a powerful movie based on a powerful bool by German author Bernhard Schlink. And Kate has done complete justice to it. So has, in my opinion, the young David Kross, whose performance I found more amazing than Ralph Fiennes’.
It’s a slow long movie. But I didn’t mind that very much. A 15-year old kid feels extremely sick on the way home from school one day. And he stops to throw up. A stranger, a woman, gives him a hug and extends a few moments of empathy. Three weeks later he comes back with flowers to thank her. Despite the huge age difference (she calls me Kid throughout the movie) there’s a sexual spark between them and they end up having an affair. Each day, Hannah Schmitz asks him to read to her. She’s not literate.
She gets promoted, changes her job, and says a brusque goodbye to the kid. But he sees her again. This time when he’s in court as a law student. Hannah has worked as a guard at Auschwitz. What did she do wrong? What happened to her? and to them?
Kate Winslet’s own performance in Revolutionary Road is going to compete with her work in this movie. Tough call for the Oscar guys!
Oh Kate Winslet is one fantastic actress!!!
Her entire body is expression, and yes her face radiates every kind of emotion from angry or furious to defiant to extremely joyful and child like to sad as a weeping willow..
I love her! will have to see this movie!
some time ago i saw a movie on an amazing love story with Kate Winslet: an elderly couple coping with the woman s Alzheimer disease. She had been a successful writer, the bright and charismatic one in the couple. her brilliant mind is beginning to fall apart with the disease though, and now the husband has to be the strong and reasonable one. Kate is playing the young woman, an amazing performance of a rebellious young mind.
Apparently it s the real life story of a British writer called Iris Murdoch (I did not know her before the movie, but will have to do some research on her work – she came across as pretty fascinating).
I found her sublime in this one too.
What about Angelina Jolie s new one on the son who disappeared, is found again, but only the mother has doubts on this boy actually being her son?
I saw Brad Pitt s new one, the curious fate of Benjamin Button.
The story was GREAT, absolutely recommended. I found Brad Pitt s performance not that great, Cate Blanchett was amazing as always. And the story is one of the most original ones in cinema ever I d say.
By the way Mala – the new layout is gorgeous!
Fresh and friendly!
The two Oscar-nominated movies in which Kate Winslet has acted are both absolutely fantastic. And very different from one another. Both are not fast-paced movies and yet are really absorbing. A lot of the time we focus on Kate Winslet’s face. Emotions move across her face like clouds shifting in the sky. She’s amazing.
I did mini-review Changeling. Good movie. But predictions say Angeleina Jolie isn’t going to get best actress for it. I don’t think she deserves ie either. Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet should pretty much be ahead.
Predictions also say The Reader isn’t going to get Best Movie. Slumdog and several others will be ahead. But it’s a must-watch.
I have to bring myself to watch Benjamin Button. Something turned me off. I’m not quite sure what. I’ll have to go back and give it another try.
You like the new format? I actually only changed to see if people reporting problems seeing the text when accessing it with Internet Explorer have better luck with this template.
Hi,
I am still having problems reading the interviews. The only one that loads up for me is Autumn Ward but it pops up under Suzy Evan’s heading. I was able to access this page from the About Mala link.
Medea
Uh oh. I guess I’ll have to ask a techie when i next meet one. I thought a change of template might fix it, but it didn’t. I’m able to view it with my IE, so now it must be IE under certain conditions! Certain types of content ticked off in the options maybe.
This definitely sounds worth seeing !