Germany reacts to The Reader
The Weinstein bros. produced “The Reader,” which recently earned Kate Winslet her first Oscar, has been coming attack for being morally confused, simplistic or just plain schwach for some time now. The film opened last week in Germany and is being heralded as a much more serious-minded entertainment…
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BERLIN — Kate Winslet took home Oscar gold a week ago for The Reader. But while Winslet may be the actress of the hour, American critics responded tepidly to her film, an adaptation of the best-selling novel by German author Bernard Schlink. In Germany, where the movie just opened nationwide, The Reader is earning high praise as a penetrating exploration of the nature of German postwar guilt…
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