Actors: Geoffrey
Rush, Sophie Nelisse, Emily Watson, Nico Liersch
Rating: 7 out of 10, Supremely well-acted,
but slow moving drama about a young orphan thrust into a childless German
family on the cusp of World War 2. It
was obviously aiming for some highly moralistic message as the atrocities of WW2
are seen through the eyes of a child but it ends up being a little too
dull. The cast does its level best to
elevate the work but there’s just not enough meat hanging on the bones of the
story. Geoffrey Rush should be marked as
a national treasure for his career and he’s once again spot on as the
doting father. The young actors are also
very good and it was interesting to see the story told from the German
side. Death as the narrator wasn’t an
easy thing to pull off and wasn’t.
MVP: Rush elevates
any role he undertakes and does so as the humble and loving Papa
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