Bleak and emotionally wrought film with excellent performances by Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz and both David Kross and Ralph Fiennes as Michael Berg at different ages.
I found it impossible to relate to the two main characters or really understand the motivations for their actions or inactions even though I think the film is trying to make them in some way understandable. However I think that this failure of the film is somewhat deliberate as human psychology is sometimes inexplicable and the characters themselves are not entirely sure why they have done the things they have.
