Just watched The Book Thief, a beautiful, poignant film by Brian Percival. Like many other feature films of now-a-days, it is also a 'based-on-the-novel'. The story line builds on WW2 viewed from the lens of an adolescent.
I found the story part not much interesting though. We have seen many of these kinds being The Pianist perhaps the best among them. What makes it different from the rests is mostly the visual, the wonderful cinematography and, of course, the screen play. Specially, I liked the third-party narrations pretending to be some omnipresent, spiritual entity (authority of death?).
Most of the shots were beautiful, pure pleasure to eyes. And, so was the young actress. At some point, I got a feeling like this kid is stealing the entire show with her long, engaging stare, bright look and good acting. I was surprised revealing her a Canadian. I thought, at least from her appearance, she'd be an European (French?).
The book reading part followed by the stealing act was good but not that much exciting as they could be. Her obsession for reading was well pointed out but could be given more emphasis to more establish her character as a book thief. However, she repeatedly claimed herself a book borrower. The big war along with its suspense and fear seemed to be a bit obscure, not so strongly present in the background.
Geoffrey Rush is awesome with all his nuances and humors. He got some unique expressions that I assume he improvised beyond the script. Emily was perfect as the very strict mother. And, so was the neighbor boy Rudy in his charming role. Overall I enjoyed watching the film, specially the first-half.
Looking forward to seeing more from Brian.
I found the story part not much interesting though. We have seen many of these kinds being The Pianist perhaps the best among them. What makes it different from the rests is mostly the visual, the wonderful cinematography and, of course, the screen play. Specially, I liked the third-party narrations pretending to be some omnipresent, spiritual entity (authority of death?).
Most of the shots were beautiful, pure pleasure to eyes. And, so was the young actress. At some point, I got a feeling like this kid is stealing the entire show with her long, engaging stare, bright look and good acting. I was surprised revealing her a Canadian. I thought, at least from her appearance, she'd be an European (French?).The book reading part followed by the stealing act was good but not that much exciting as they could be. Her obsession for reading was well pointed out but could be given more emphasis to more establish her character as a book thief. However, she repeatedly claimed herself a book borrower. The big war along with its suspense and fear seemed to be a bit obscure, not so strongly present in the background.
Geoffrey Rush is awesome with all his nuances and humors. He got some unique expressions that I assume he improvised beyond the script. Emily was perfect as the very strict mother. And, so was the neighbor boy Rudy in his charming role. Overall I enjoyed watching the film, specially the first-half.
Looking forward to seeing more from Brian.
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