Review of Sarah's Key (2010) by Pedro G — 05 Aug 2011
Sarah's Key: Rating 8.5 The movie goes back and forth between the present day and 1942 when on July 16 and 17 the French police working for the German army rounded up over 13,000 Jews in Paris, France.
The event is known as Vel d'Hiv. The name comes from the velodrome where the Jews were initially held sorted and sent to camps in Germany. Kristin Scott Thomas plays Julia Jarmond, an American journalist married to a French businessman.
She is assigned to write a story about the event. Even though it has been more than 60 years, she becomes intrigued when she learns her husband's family moved into an empty apartment in Paris in August of 1942 which has been occupied by a Jewish family that had been arrested.
The story centers on Sarah, a young girl not older than 11 years old. Sarah escaped from the detention camp and found her way back to Paris to look for her younger brother who was left locked in the cupboard by his sister Sarah in order not to be captured.
Julia's search for Sarah intensifies and takes her to the USA and back to Europe in France and Italy. This is a powerful, sad, well done, must see film. Scott-Thomas is terrific as Julia. Edmund Burke once wrote "All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
"This quote is exactly what is depicted in this movie about the French people in 1942.
This review of Sarah's Key (2010) was written by Pedro G on 05 Aug 2011.
Sarah's Key has generally received positive reviews.
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