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Whoever read the book and was probably also fascinated by the story might find the movie touching, but knowing it only scatches the questions of guilt and sex on the surface, compared to the way the book does. Kate Winslet is in fact good, but I always pictured a young Hanny Schygulla or, for example, Nina Hoss for this part.. she 'plays' german, but there are subtleties missing. On the other hand - the young guy was very convincing !
The visit in the camp, well - the movie was trying to bring up the atmosphere of being numbed by sheer imagination of horror (which is what happens once you visit a camp, even if there are little remains). The clean, well-lit filming kept its distance, though. All in all I wasn't disappointed, but thought the film could have been much more spicy and daring.

Woody Allen is back to NY, and this could be another pre-his-european-cycle movie : Old fart coming together with a young woman, existential questions thrown around in a comedy that works. Even though his people come together a bit too neatly, it's still a pleasure to watch. He makes difficult things and writing seem easy. And that's already quite a talent.

Fucking whacky rockers, this movie kicks ass (no better way to describe it :)
Philipp Seymour Hoffman as usual on top of his art.

We (Germans, particularly) have seen plenty of these kind of well-made war movies, maybe that's why there is a certain distance to it from my part. Nina Hoss is great, though, and the movie well-done, if not a bit too perfect. I was semi-touched.

It took me a while to warm up to Frost/Nixon, a) because I was tired and b) because the subject is not something I know very much about, I was 7 years old at the time. I did get cought up in the duel between the two men, though, and the way the movie shows mass media's vicious processes in general.