The Reader

[Machine Translation] Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, Kate Winslet, nominated in five major categories including Best Picture! The film adaptation of the international bestseller "The Reader" by Stephen Daldry, the master director of "Little Dancer" and "The Hours", depicts the forbidden love between a boy and an older woman in post-World War II Germany. Kate Winslet won her first Oscar for this film, in which she takes on the challenge of getting boldly wet in a scene that spans 30 years from the age of 36. The young Michael is played by David Cross, who has won numerous film awards including the Cannes Film Festival. The adult Michael is played by Rafe Fiennes. -In Germany in 1958, Michael is a 15-year-old boy who falls madly in love with Hannah, a woman 21 years his senior. Michael becomes emotionally and physically infatuated with her. Michael reads a book to Hannah in bed, which becomes their "love ritual". One day, however, Hannah suddenly disappears... Eight years later, Michael is unexpectedly reunited with Hannah. Eight years later, Michael unexpectedly meets Hannah again, this time as a law student, when he discovers her in the defendant's seat at a trial he is attending, accused of a crime.

Special Feature / Bonus Track: an interview and making-of (subject to change)

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アカデミー賞主演女優賞受賞＜ケイト・ウィンスレット＞、作品賞ほか主要5部門にノミネート! 世界的ベストセラー「朗読者」を『リトル・ダンサー』『めぐりあう時間たち』の名匠スティーヴン・ダルドリー監督が映像化し、第二次世界大戦後のドイツを舞台に、少年と年上の女性との禁断の愛を描く。主演ケイト・ウィンスレットは大胆な濡れ場に体当たりで挑み、本作で初のオスカーを受賞。36歳から30年間にわたるハンナの人生を見事に生き抜いた。少年時代のマイケルにはカンヌ国際映画祭ほか、数々の映画賞を受賞したデヴィッド・クロス。大人になったマイケルをレイフ・ファインズが演じる。 ――1958年、ドイツ。15歳の少年マイケルは、21歳年上の女性ハンナと激しい恋に落ちる。マイケルは精神的にも肉体的にも彼女に夢中に。いつしかベッドでマイケルがハンナに本を朗読することがふたりの"愛の儀式"となっていく。しかし、ある日突然ハンナは姿を消してしまう・・・。8年後、マイケルは思わぬ形でハンナと再会する。法学生となったマイケルが傍聴中の裁判で、被告席で罪に問われる彼女の姿を発見するのだった。

映像特典: インタビュー映像、メイキング (以上、予定)