Sarah’s Key Starring: Kristen Scott Thomas, Melusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frederic Pierrot
Directed By: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
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Sometimes the key to the past is better left unturned.
Journalist, Julia Jarmond, is a New Yorker at heart, though relocated to Paris for love. She is commissioned to write a feature story on the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, the mass arrest of nearly 14,000 Jews in occupied France during WWII. Though, whilst delving deeper for the forgotten truth, Julia further unravels the connection her married French family has to the event, and in particular, a deceased Jewish girl, Sarah. Gradually, we race to uncover the mystery of Sarah, through past recollections of distant relatives, achieved through a successful use of crosscutting between war stricken Paris, to present day. This is a gutsy film of an era in French history that, President Jacques Chirac, only apologised for in 1995. Sarah’s story is undoubtedly one of courage within a time of extreme turmoil and pain.
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