Directed by:
Gilles Paquet-BrennerCinematography:
Pascal RidaoComposer:
Max RichterCast:
Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Natasha Mashkevich, Gisèle Casadesus (more)Plots(1)
Based on Tatiana de Rosnay's New York Times best seller, SARAH'S KEY is the story of an American journalist in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristin Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down. In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-years-old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. More than sixty years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah's family was forced to leave is about to become her own. As Julia's life becomes entwined with Sarah's heart-breaking story, she must tackle the complex issue of how to live with the past and keep moving forward. (AZ Films)
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Every war story is literally horrible. But it’s worse when the main roles are played by kids. And that’s precisely the case with this movie, which amazingly combines a story from the war with a story from the present. The audience actually doesn’t know until the last 25 minutes how the current investigation will end and they also won’t make a sound while that story from the war is being told. But the moment the war story ends, the movie starts to lose steam. But until then, I admit that it is a great war drama which I will never forget. Even though it’s horrible, I am glad that movies like this are made. In not too long, there will not be anybody left who could tell those stories, only the movies themselves. After the movie, I felt horribly sad and I hope that I personally don’t ever encounter anything like it.
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