Sarah’s Key/Elle S’Appelait Sarah

My short review:
Skeletons in the closet! Reality tends not to fit into the comfort we all seek. Every nation struggles through its suppressed history and France, besides its colonialist dreams, has a long and torturous relationship to its Jews. A recent French politician spoke of “a footnote in history,” when in 1942 the French police outdid the German request by including children and rounded up 76000 Jews to deport them to the Nazi death camps.
Ultimately though the stench may make itself known in surprising ways, historian storyteller Tatiana de Rosnay has skillfully woven the narrative strands to tear off some of the masks. —> A-
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In modern-day Paris, a journalist (Kristen Scott Thomas) finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in 1942.
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The film’s US website.
A review in Haaretz.





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