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Sarah's Key

Elle s'appelait Sarah

2010

Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot ...

6.8

5,574

Drama In May 2002, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist who has been living in Paris for twenty years, is commissioned with an article related to the sixtieth anniversary of the Jewish persecution. Married to Bertrand Tézac, with whom she has an 11 year-old daughter named Zoë, Julia gradually uncovers the events of that fateful 1942 and, curiously, the tale of Sarah, who is, incredibly, related to her family by marriage, the Tézacs. Having ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Scott Bowles USA Today	Sarah's Key is, for the most part, an exercise in reserve. We never see Hitler, never enter battle. Paquet-Brenner (Pretty Things, Walled In), rightly tells his Holocaust story as it now lives: through survivors and descendants (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"Gilles Paquet-Brenner has done an elegant job of reducing a complex piece with many components into a riveting narrative that grabs you by the lapels and refuses to loosen its grip"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"A heartbreaking, wonderfully acted and superbly dramatized drama"	POS

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