The ReaderStarring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross
The story about a young man’s affair with a woman twice his age in Germany is hard to describe without giving away too much. Fiennes and Kross play the older and younger men, respectively; Winslet plays her character at all ages.
Extremely well done, and Winslet is brilliant: She won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance, and I can’t argue with that. Not a “feel-good” movie, but one well worth watching.
I saw three movies (on DVD) this weekend, and two of the three were real winners: “The Reader” (see small review at right) and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” I had no desire to see the latter, but someone at work said it was “amazing, you have to see it.”
So I did. And it was amazing. And poignant. And Cate Blanchett – how does she not have a mantle full of Oscars? She is amazing in everything she’s in: This movie, “Elizabeth,” “The Aviator” – even her small turn in “Bandits.”
The third movie was the James Bond flick, “Quantum of Solace.” Entertaining, stuff blows up, whatever. I’m not a big Bond fan, but it was non-stop action. Good veg-out on the couch Saturday movie.