Genre: Film
Grade: A
Notable People: Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Sophie Nelisse, Directed by Brian Percival
Title: The Book Thief
Review – Unbelievably touching art house film about an Ann Frank type in Stuttgart Germany at start of the War. This girl, Sophie, is going to be a film giant. Brilliant!!!! Rush and Watson are magnificent and the story is really well told- though the narration is a bit schmaltzy. We mostly cried for two hours…extraordinarily moving, and it WILL make you think. How could this happen?