The Reader
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom. From TMDB
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34 of 34 · most liked firstQuiz earlier: 'Kate Winslet won an Oscar for which film?' *Our Ma's hand shoots up* (We know it's The Reader and our Ma is 100% going to say Titanic) 'Mrs Big Pants' *stunned silence*
unlabelledView post →"Only one thing can make a soul complete and that is love." Movie 🎥 : The Reader (2008) Director : Stephen Daldry 🌇 🧡 (Photo by Kirpal 💌)
unlabelledView post →He would make me help him decide what movie to see on a Friday evening: standing behind my desk, making me scroll through the Reader listings on my computer, hemming and hawing about what might be good. It’s not that he couldn’t use a website. I think he couldn’t process the information alone
unlabelledView post →This is so bleak. Rosenbaum was the main film writer for the Reader for DECADES. Legacy media is in such a bad place when they don’t have room for a monthly piece from one of the giants of the medium. jonathanrosenbaum.net/2026/03/movi... jonathanrosenbaum.net/2026/03/movi...
unlabelledView post →Michael (David Kross) takes a ride with Hanna (Kate Winslet) in the 2008 film The Reader #BicycleBirthday Kate Winslet Born October 5, 1975
unlabelledView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of THE READER boxd.it/bClm6n Forget Fiennes. Forget Winslet. Emotional core & true lead is German actor David Kross in terrific performance. Story of accountability, responsibility & reconciling difficult truths about history & those we love. But half-baked in execution. #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →at the Reader I got to compare the film The Long Walk and the novel. The film is more directly about antifascist resistance—though it also presents a more simplistic heroic narrative which the book sees as part of fascist propaganda. chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
unlabelledView post →Tonight's film The Reader (2008)
unlabelledView post →Licorice Pizza: dece but meandering and problematic TMNT: stone cold classic of my youth, cowabunga forever Weapons: probably my 2nd favorite movie this year next to Sinners, fantastic and fun horror movie The Reader: very well-acted drama, but also meandering and problematic #lastfourwatched
unlabelledView post →We don't talk enough about how shit THE READER is as film.
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching THE READER (2008). Director: Stephen Daldry. Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes. Sexed-up "prestige" piece set in post-WWII Germany. Won Winslet an Oscar, but certainly isn't her best work. Saw in theater, but not since. Let's see if it's better than I remember. #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →My favorite film performances from the 2000s. Kate Winslet, Hanna Schmitz, "The Reader" (directed by Stephen Daldry). #movies #films #thereader #stephendaldry #katewinslet
unlabelledView post →for the Reader wrote about The Uprising, a film about a peasant revolt which doesn't seem to care at all about peasants. or people. or politics. lots of shaky cam mob scenes though. chicagoreader.com/film-tv/revi...
unlabelledView post →Suddenly I remembered the movie The Reader and the series The End of Fxxxing World. This one is an #aruani old sketch.
unlabelledView post →#MatthewsMonthofMusic 28/10 An instrumental that'd make a good soundtrack for a movie scene Bill Ryder-Jones, The Reader (Malbork) Love the undercurrent of threat mixed with something more romantic youtu.be/0RxO7ZQA63g?...
unlabelledView post →Besides his outstanding work as a cinematographer, Roger Deakins is also a fine photographer. He took this shot during the filming of Sam Mendes' The Reader, in 2007. It has nothing to do with the film.
unlabelledView post →I don’t know how “The Reader”, of all movies, ended up being the best film I watched last week 🤷🏼♂️ #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
unlabelledView post →(On the phone with Aypo (the Reader)) Yeah no Mulan is all about crickets. …Because a cricket shows up at the start. No I haven’t watched the rest of the movie, I always stop because I don’t respect the gay dragon’s sassy attitude!
unlabelledView post →Kate Winslet in The Reader (2008) #Film #AdorableLegs #nsfw #ErotiArt #Erotica
unlabelledView post →just finished watching the movie The Reader (with Ralph fiennes) - these films are important and yet so awful.
unlabelledView post →ironically that movie took away one of the great benefits of illiteracy, which is not being able to read THE READER
unlabelledView post →and at the Reader, reviewed Backspot, D.W. Waterson's queer Indigenous cheerleader drama. It's pretty great, both because of the ways in which it is reproduces sport film beats past and in the ways it doesn't. chicagoreader.com/film/review-...
unlabelledView post →Interesting - not seen that version. I seem to recall she played dim well in The Reader but I so disliked the film that I have blanked most of it.
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching2025 Today was a Stephen Daldry, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep kind of day: - The Hours (2002) - The Reader (2008) - The Iron Lady (2011) - Still Alice (2014)
unlabelledView post →Movie review: The Reader, starring Kate Winslet. 10/10. No notes.
unlabelledView post →Ok now we’re at the point of recreating specific incidents from the actual holocaust. An event like this what the film The Reader revolved around, decades after it happened
unlabelledView post →Gervais nailed it in Extras when he had Winslet playing herself acting in a Nazi movie “just for the Oscar”. Later, emceeing the award ceremony where she won a gong for The Reader, he got to crow “see, I told you!”
unlabelledView post →My ★★★½ review of The Reader (2008) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/fYdtr7)
unlabelledView post →The Reader (2008) Directed by Stephen Daldry https://onesheet.org/movie/the-reader-2008/
unlabelledView post →Name A Movie, TV Movie or Series you've watched MORE THAN ONCE within the LAST 10 YEARS beginning with letter R (Add a Poster) 😍😍📽📺 Mine: The Reader (2008; Yours: (Add a Poster)
unlabelledView post →The Reader (this was one of the medium format film shots I was excited about the other night)
unlabelledView post →The Reader blends a controversial romance with post-war German guilt, presenting a layered, emotional story carried by powerful performances and thoughtful direction. Despite some logical gaps, the film succeeds in portraying personal and societal struggles through its characters' trauma and secrets. It’s a compelling watch for those drawn to slow-burning dramas with moral complexity. Read the full review here: (Indonesian version : alunauwie.com) and (English version : uwiepuspita.com)
positive · AI labelView post →I didn't turn this movie off after the beautiful sex scenes only because two others were watching it with me. The mere fact that "Germans" were speaking English totally destroyed the whole "suspend disbelief" for me. This film is an awful rendition by Brits of an award-winning German book. Perhaps, only someone from the Nachgeborenen (to coin Bertolt Brecht's meaning of German post-Holocaust generations) should have made this film. The two stars are for Winslet and Kross. The rest sucks.
negative · AI labelView post →David Kross is really effective in this tale of a young boy ("Michael") who encounters "Hanna" (Kate Winslet) as he shelters in her doorway from a rainstorm. In fairly short order, this fifteen year old boy becomes her lover; in return she gets him to read to her. He is soon infatuated and devastated when he turns up at her apartment one day to find her gone. Skip on thirty years or so and he - now Ralph Fiennes - takes over a retrospective of her story as we discover she was tried for being a…
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