Psychological drama set during post-World War II Germany, tracing the relationship over several decades, between a German teen and a mysterious woman twice his age. Kate Winslet plays the repellent Hanna Schmitz, an attractive, but coarse tram worker who engages in an illicit sexual affair with the young boy. Despite her supremely flawed character, she manages to make Hanna sympathetic. It is a complicated, nuanced performance that you remember long after the movie is over. Unfortunate the chilly tone of the film works against its overall success: the story left me somewhat cold.
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So this WAS a good movie? It had a point, and was like the Graduate? Wow. I just turned it off after fifteen minutes. What the is Kate Winslet’s obsession with nudity? I couldn’t see a plot in the opening. Just skin.