Absorbing crime drama
By Rama Gaind
‘Changeling’ is an absorbing crime drama about an amazing real-life case from 1920s Los Angeles.
Angelina Jolie’s performance as a distraught mother Christine Collins who pursues justice is the mainstay of this film which has been directed by Clint Eastwood. Jolie is superb.
This is a retelling of the incredible tale of a single mother who returns home from work in 1928 and finds that her son has disappeared.
After the besieged LA Police Department find a boy, Collins’ declares that he is not her son. This stand incites contempt, threats and a demeaning campaign which aims at making a concerned mother appear negligent and crazy.
This story of corruption, accusation and loss is a touching one.
IN a Golden Globe-winning performance, Kate Winslet teams up (again) with Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Revolutionary Road’.
Based on a novel by Richard Yates about an unhappy marriage, the film has been directed by Sam Mendes (‘American Beauty’)
Both Winslet and DiCaprio excel in their roles as Frank and April Wheeler.
DIRECTED sensitively by Stephen Daldry, ‘The Reader’ is based on the 1995 novel by German law professor Bernhard Schlink about innocence that’s lost in post-war Germany
It explores the difficulties of subsequent generations to comprehend the Holocaust by using an affair in the 1950s between a former concentration camp guard and a teenager half her ago.
Superbly acted by Kate Winslet, Kavid Kross and Ralph Fiennes.
