Sarah's Key
In modern-day Paris, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist, finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel d'Hiv round up, which took place in 1942.
8 March 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 December 1926, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
1982, Québec, Canada
8 February 1949, Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
March 21, 2016
The crumbs of happiness the filmmakers find to soothe us with are that learning Sarah's story helps Julia come to terms with her own problems, a neat resolution that trivializes the story the filmmakers mean to illuminate.
June 02, 2014
Well executed and avoids histrionic manipulation, allowing just enough breathing room without truncating the raw emotion of the book.
August 19, 2011
Scott Thomas's portrayal of her character's emotional transition ensures Sarah's Key will keep your heart open.
January 14, 2013
A film that plays as a guilty remembrance of a dark corner of French history tucked into a ticking clock thriller.
August 05, 2011
Thomas' performance is one of brilliant restraint and believable naturalism.
November 04, 2011
I'm delighted to see that the Weinstein Company is re-releasing one of the year's most overlooked films, Sarah's Key, the moving adaptation of Tatiana De Rosnay's international best-seller. It's one of the year's best films.
August 04, 2011
It does provide audiences with the satisfaction of seeing and hearing an important truth expressed, and that's better than making you feel good. That's making you feel something.
August 19, 2011
French director Paquet-Brenner occasionally yields to melodrama, particularly in the final act, but he is resolute about not depicting all of his countrymen as Nazi stooges, since many weren't.
May 03, 2015
Isn't it a little early in the year for Harvey Weinstein to be grubbing for Oscars already?
November 28, 2011
The emphasis on the writer's relatively trivial if symbolic domestic woes (she experiences a 'miracle' pregnancy in the midst of her research into death) detracts from the power of the wartime scenes.
December 13, 2011
Thomas carries the weight of the movie, and her usual sangfroid works against her; when she finally makes contact with the deported couple's grandson, the story crumples into sentimentality
June 23, 2013
Never quite finds the right balance between the grave consequences of its period scenes and the relative small beans of the present-day ones.
