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• the reader…

  ,…is not romance as you may know it (!!) but is a bold, challenging and emotionally-distant historical drama. Ralph Fiennes is Michael Berg, the present-day narrator of this film and Bernard Schlink’s novel, a middle-aged German lawyer whom we first encounter making breakfast for a younger bedfellow but refusing to exchange intimacy for commitment. We reconvene in 1958 and 15-year-old Michael (David Kross), a clever child from an academic family, loses his virginity to taciturn Hanna (Kate Winslet), a mysterious, [...]