All the Light We Cannot See

[Available Nov. 2 on Netflix.] Shawn Levy's compelling, suspenseful, poignant, well-acted, intense, 228-minute, four-episode film based on Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel in which a courageous blind French teenager (Aria Mia Loberti), whose father (Mark Ruffalo) was a museum locksmith in Paris and her great uncle (Hugh Laurie) is with the French Resistance, reads excerpts from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" on an illicit radio frequency during WWII while an orphaned, radio-savvy German soldier (Louis Hofmann), who is separated from his sister (Luna Wedler), is forced to hunt for her whereabouts and a sickly Gestapo officer (Lars Eidinger) searches for the Sea of Flames diamond that he believes will cure him.
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