(2008)
The first half is a dull but earnest pseudo-intellectual wank fantasy. The second half is more interesting, concerning the trial of Kate Winslet and seeing Ralph Fiennes enter the fray (his younger self is just too uncommanding a presence playing older than teenage).
This is such bare-faced awards-bait, it recalls Streep's accented, unadorned Oscar winner of the '80s, Sophie's Choice (although playing a character on the other side of the Holocaust fence).
It never really gets to grips with its subject of complicity versus moral fibre, more content with lovingly taking in Winslet's "look at me wearing this character" performance.
This is such bare-faced awards-bait, it recalls Streep's accented, unadorned Oscar winner of the '80s, Sophie's Choice (although playing a character on the other side of the Holocaust fence).
It never really gets to grips with its subject of complicity versus moral fibre, more content with lovingly taking in Winslet's "look at me wearing this character" performance.
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