Review of Sarah's Key (2010) by Marilee A — 03 Sep 2011
It is one of those films you come out of feeling a bit changed forever.This is an Amazing, Important Story that cries out to be told amongst so many simular Holocaust Stories that have gone unheard. Based on the events of a Holocaust Survivor/Escapee Sarah Starzynski who goes to great lengths to get back to her Family Apartment in Paris where she locked her Little Brother in a Closet during the Jewish Roundup there in July of 1942.
A Courageous Journey that is later(Current Day) dug up by a Journalist who stumbles upon it through a coincidental connection to the girls past through an Apartment her husbands family acquired in Aug 1942.
The Journalist(Kristin Scott Thomas), Julia Jarmond, is going to do an Historical Expose of the Vel d'Hiv , kind of a Holding Center or Auditorium,where the Jews were taken before deportation to various Concentration Camps, with it's Inhuman conditions,10,000 people, that has been since been torn down & now is the Ministry of Defense Building,Ironically.
I had never heard of this part of the Holocaust History, what a shame it's not taught in Schools.This Girl, Sarah(Melusine Mayance), life affects Four different Families in profoundly poignant ways.
This Film affected me to my Soul, I cried through almost all of it.
This review of Sarah's Key (2010) was written by Marilee A on 03 Sep 2011.
Sarah's Key has generally received positive reviews.
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