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Although "The Reader" costars gifted Ralph Fiennes and also features a young actor named David Kross, it is Kate Winslet's haunting performance that gives the film its greatest success.

The narrator is Michael Berg, introduced in the Germany of 1995 as a successful attorney played by Fiennes. Extensive flashbacks alternate with more modern scenes throughout. In 1958, when he was 15, he was stricken with scarlet¹ fever on a street and helped home by a strange woman named Hanna (Winslet).

Once Berg has recovered, he goes to find Hanna to thank her. She is 36, but that doesn't stop her from almost immediately seducing² the boy.

This seduction eventually develops into a more complex relationship. Hanna likes to be read to and soon Berg is reading her everything from "Tintin" to "Lady Chatterley's Lover." The affair ends all of a sudden, and the next time Berg sees Hanna it is under starkly³ different circumstances. It is years later; he is in law school, taking a seminar that involves going to a Nazi⁴ war-crimes trial, and there, at the defendant's table, sits Hanna.

From here on in, "The Reader" is at its strongest, as its concerns with the guilt-ridden interplay between generations, whether it is even possible to come to terms with what people we love have done, gain a sharper focus.

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