Echo Live: Winslet's Steamy Affair Should Put Her in Running for an Oscar ; the Reader (15, 123 Mins) ****

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WITH Oscar season just around the corner Kate Winslet has thrust herself right into contention for a Best Actress award with this superb holocaust drama.

In 1995 Berlin, lawyer Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) struggles with the past. He thinks back to 1958 when, as a young man (now played by David Kross), he fell dangerously ill and was helped by good samaritan Hanna Schmidt (Winslet). When he recovered, the pair begin a passionate affair with the older woman offering him bedroom favours while Michael educated her in the works of Dostoevsky, Homer and Mark Twain.

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Echo Live: Winslet's Steamy Affair Should Put Her in Running for an Oscar ; the Reader (15, 123 Mins) ****

Eight years later, while studying at ...

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