Movie Review: 'Sarah's Key'
Review of the film based on the best-selling novel of the same name
Sarah's KeyPic: A-Z FilmsSarah’s Key is the kind of movie that you can’t simply forget after one or two days. It’s one of those few films that stays with you for quite a while. The movie -- based on the international best-selling novel by Tatiana de Rosnay of the same name -- had a gala presentation at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
The film tells the story of Julia Jarmond (played by Academy Award-nominee Kristin Scott Thomas), an American journalist living in Paris. She’s writing an article about 1942’s Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in France and stumbles upon the story of a young Jewish girl named Sarah (Melusine Mayance), who locked her younger brother in a desperate attempt to hide him from the French police who were arresting Jewish families.
Movies that are set in two different times are tricky to direct, but Sarah’s Key director Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Walled In, Pretty Things) does a great job of making sure the film doesn’t get confusing.
Scott Thomas delivers a stellar performance, but it’s Mayance who will wow audiences as young Sarah. The rest of the cast (which includes Niels Arestrup, Dominique Frot and Aidan Quinn) deliver great performances as well.
Sarah’s Key isn’t for the faint of heart. But it’s definitely worth seeing.
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