Guilt and sin.

A naked Kate Winslet as a former concentration camp warden invites to lots of heated discussions. But ultimately, Stephen Daldrys of "the lecture" just a good retelling of his novel.

 

You can find this tasteless film, too trivial, confused or cool, and yet there still remains a reason left to "the readers' view: Kate Winslet. The Oscar,
On Sunday they will receive for doing so, it is absolutely justified, even if they Ehedrama "times of rebellion" was still a lot more interesting.

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Cast Winslet, Kross: adolescence between sex, books, guilt and death

What is hard to believe, for the whole vertebrae, just to Stephen Daldrys filming of Bernhard Schlink's novel is being made. "The reader" is now available for all times of the "Holocaust-Sex Film", one of these scandals entwined movies, you probably have seen in order to be able to say.

It adheres rigidly to the movie plot and structure of the text: A 15-year-old experienced in post-war Germany, his sexual awakening with the mysterious, quiet 36-year-old Hanna Schmitz, who before and after sex from works of world literature aloud.

He forfeited her, but she disappears one day, and only years later, he sees them during his law studies again - it is the process, because she as a former concentration camp warden for the deaths of hundreds of people responsible should be. She shows no remorse, she has another secret, for they are more ashamed. The secret they could before a life-long imprisonment, even her former lover knows it, but both remain silent.

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Like the novel, the film often moves between four levels of time - tells how the boys of the past (David Kross, excellent) a successful but emotionsgestörter lawyer (Ralph Fiennes) has become, and how the mysterious mature woman remains a mysterious prisoner who do not wants to disclose whether their debt sometime accessed or understood it.

The book seemed like a game of philosophical thought guilt, atonement and sin, to the silence of a generation and to the helplessness of the following.

The film has been the medium for less opportunity for introspection and trips into the thought world of his characters. Director Stephen Daldry ( "The Hours") helps with long views into the care-filled faces of his protagonists, suggests to her misfortune, without being able to explain.

In some ways, even charming, precisely because the main character so morally Hanna Schmitz still remains opaque than in the template. Many, however, the cool restraint rather than frustrating it.

Sure, the sex scenes are not exactly squeamish and perhaps a touch too schwelgerisch captured, but ultimately is "the lecture" an adequate, even after careful presentation of his posts.

Scandalous film can only be there, where the novel has been, or was perceived as some. Who the book is brilliant for keeps, for a major confrontation with the Holocaust from the perspective of a guilty party may also sign the film. Who the gracious absolution obstinate perpetrator of a defendant, it will do so again here.

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But while watching, as the great Kate Winslet is devoted to this figure as a puzzle to make a human being, with no simple answers to want to - this is a perfect adventure drama.

Who will have a truly masterful literature wants to see, there still remains the "times of turmoil" after the novel by Richard Yates.