1. What questions.
What are you reviewing? The Reader

What is it about? A love story between an older woman and a young man

What is the plot or storyline? It all starts with a young boy, Michael, who falls in love with an older woman, Hanna. Years later, he discovers that she was involved in certain war crimes during the Second World war.

What is the theme? Treason

What is the director's purpose? His purpose is to make the viewer reflect upon love in all its shapes and the way it can bring two very different people together.

What genre or classification does it fit? Romance, Drama, Thriller

What is the tone? Dramatic

What is the point of view?

What is the mood? Sad

2. Who questions.
Who wrote, directed, or acted it? The writers are David Hare and Bernhard Schlink. The director is Stephen Daldry and the main actors are Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes and Jeanette Hain

What else have they done? Kate Winslet has played in many acclaimed movies such as The Holiday (2006), All King's Men(2006), Titanic(1997), Hamlet(1996) and many more. Ralph Fiennes has also played in many successful movies such as The Duchess(2008), The Constant gardener (2005), The English Patient (1996)...

Who are the main characters in the story? Michael Berg played by Ralph Fiennes and Hanna Schmitz played by Kate Winslet.

Who is the intended audience? Adults and young adults

Who has said what about this? "The Reader is provocative, adult fare, meticulously directed by Stephen Daldry with outstanding contributions from production designer Brigitte Broch, cinematographers Roger Deakins and Chris Menges, and composer Nico Muhly. It’s not escapist fare for the holidays, but neither is it a dirge: it’s the kind of movie that inspires thought and debate. " Leonard Maltin

Why? Maltin explains that The Reader is not necessarily the happiest of movies, but it is very well written and played. The story unfolds very slowly, almost poetically.

3. Where and when questions.
When does the action take place? In 1958 and later in 1966

Where does the action take place? In West Germany