Good acting, but NYC is not Denmark and I HATE when directors chicken out of showing that Ophelia's death was a suicide. I'm sure you know the story. Goes into Manhattan, gets job, lives in adult world.
Final analysis is that being a kid is better than being big.
This subtitled film uses Victor Hugo's classic story in a unique and creative way, studying how each of us has some of Hugo's characters in ourselves. The story is shifted to World War II, as a wealthy Jewish family enlists the aid of a former champion boxer to escape Nazi-occupied France. In return, they agree to read Hugo's novel to him along the way. The story of Oscar Schindler, a Polish factory owner who bought Jewish individuals from the Nazis to work in his factory, thus saving their lives. Based on Russell Banks' novel of the same title, Atom Egoyan's film studies the aftermath of a schoolbus crash on a small town.