Starring – Kate Winslet, Ralph Feinnes, David Kross
Director – Stephen Daldry
Domestic Gross – $21,074,000
Running Time – 122 minutes
WOW! A sympathetic Nazi movie… Really?!?! I grant you that Kate Winslet is the hottest Nazi since Elsa – She Wolf of the SS, but do we really want to forgive her for putting time in at Auschwitz because she looks good naked and can’t read?! This should not have been a Best Picture nominee. And honestly, Kate Winslet probably didn’t need to be nominated. At this point Winslet has been nominated for 6 Oscars, but do you consider her the best actress of her generation? I’ve never walked out of a Winslet movie and been wowed by her performance. While Cate Blanchett impresses me every time I see her on screen. More on that with my Benjamin Button review later. Anyway, the best performance in the movie for my money was David Kross, a relatively unknown 18 year old German actor. All that aside this is a difficult movie. It’s not a romance. It’s not a Holocaust movie. I’m not sure it fits in any category. It’s the story of a young man’s affair with who he later finds out is a former SS guard. Not so much a fell good movie. While I didn’t hold that against it I still don’t feel it was really that great a film. It’s good. It’s worthy of a viewing, but it is not Oscar caliber.
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