better than the book

Rating: 9/10 (20 September 2010)

The novel left me really completely cold, perhaps because at the time everyone was raving about it. I found it too moralizing, slow and poorly written. The most important thing about the book was the story itself. This is why I loved the film. It is very visual, I find the narrative very well transported to the visual media and the dialogues are great. I find the portrayals of young Michael sublime and Winslet is also perfect for the role of Hannah. Not being German, but speaking the language I somehow felt the whole time it's wrong the film is made in English and that it should be in German, probably also because the photography is very European. It feels like a German film which is in this case a good quality.