Review of Sarah's Key (2010) by Van R — 02 Dec 2011
In this dark tragic story of love and loss, a young Jewish girl conceals her little brother in a hidden closet in their Parisian apartment in 1942 to keep him from falling into the hands of the French police.
The French police are cooperating with the Nazis and rounding up the Jews, some 75-thousand of them. Sarah winds up in a concentration camp but escapes and makes her way back to Paris to the apartment where she discovers the horrible truth.
Afterward, she escapes to New York, marries and resumes living until the guilt of what she did comes back to haunt her. Years later, a journalist Julia (Kristin Scott Thomas) looks into the history of the Jewish atrocities and finds out about Sarah.
She traces Sarah back to the family that took her in after she escaped from the concentration camp and eventually meets Sarah's grown-up son (Aidan Quinn) who refuses to believe in his Jewish ancestry until his dying father reveals the truth.
Meanwhile, Julia is confronted by her own crisis when her husband refuses to deal with the child that Julia is carrying. He believes that he is too old to be a father and rejects his wife. Julia believes that the baby that she wants is like the brother that Sarah tried to save.
A stirring and emotionally draining film but rewarding.
This review of Sarah's Key (2010) was written by Van R on 02 Dec 2011.
Sarah's Key has generally received positive reviews.
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