Derek Winnert

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La Lectrice [The Reader] **** (1988, Miou-Miou, Régis Royer, María Casarès, Patrick Chesnais, Pierre Dux) – Classic Movie Review 11,528

Director Michel Deville’s 1988 French drama La Lectrice [The Reader] stars Miou-Miou, who delights as Constance, a young French woman hiring her services as a reader of books (La Lectrice) to people who tend to […]

Aug, 29

Charulata **** (1964, Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee) – Classic Movie Review 9341

Writer-director Satyajit Ray’s 1964 black and white Indian film Charulata [The Lonely Wife] is a witty, penetrating tale of passion and a delicate portrait of a middle-class marriage breaking up, set in India in 1879. […]

Feb, 03

The Wife **** (2018, Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Elizabeth McGovern, Max Irons) – Movie Review

Swedish director Björn Runge’s 2018 The Wife is a hugely engaging and engrossing drama as Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) the wife of the title questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her writer […]

Sep, 25

The Bookshop ** (2017, Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson) – Movie Review

The Bookshop (2017) tells an interesting, if minor, small-scale nostalgia story, with mixed results. On the plus side, the three main performances of Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy and Honor Kneafsey are all very good, credible, involving and […]

Jun, 22

Testament of Youth *** (2014, Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Hayley Atwell) – Movie Review

Alicia Vikander plays Edwardian British heroine Vera Brittain, who recalls her tempestuous coming of age during World War One in director James Kent’s film version of Vera Brittain’s great memoir of how the First World War affected […]

Jan, 14

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