
One of the darkest moments in French history occurred in 1942 Paris when French officials rounded up over 10,000 Jews and placed them in local camps. Eventually, over 8,000 were sent off to German concentration camps. As 10-year-old Sarah (Mélusine Mayance) and her family are being arrested, she hides her younger brother in a closet. After realizing she will not be allowed to go home, Sarah does whatever she can to get back to her brother. In 2009, a journalist named Julia J... (Full plot summary below)
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One of the darkest moments in French history occurred in 1942 Paris when French officials rounded up over 10,000 Jews and placed them in local camps. Eventually, over 8,000 were sent off to German concentration camps. As 10-year-old Sarah (Mélusine Mayance) and her family are being arrested, she hides her younger brother in a closet. After realizing she will not be allowed to go home, Sarah does whatever she can to get back to her brother. In 2009, a journalist named Julia Jarmond (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) is on assignment to write a story on the deported Jews in 1942. When she moves into her father-in-law's childhood apartment, she realizes it once belonged to the Strazynski family, and their daughter Sarah.
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| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceOverly elaborate Holocaust drama nevertheless benefits from the presence of Kristin Scott Thomas. |
| DeadspinWill LeitchNever quite finds the right balance between the grave consequences of its period scenes and the relative small beans of the present-day ones. |
| Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreThat makes Sarah's Key that rare Holocaust tale that punches through the cobwebs of history and its dry, inhuman statistics, and brings that terrible past to life. |
| Movie TalkJason BestMakes a powerful impact thanks to the vividness and urgency of its historical scenes. |
| Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)Brian GibsonLoses some force in its latter half but the key story remains gripping. Unlocks 70-year-old horrors so the present can't shut the door on past complicities and crimes. |
| Sarasota Herald-TribuneChristopher LloydMélusine Mayance is a revelation as young Sarah, who finds the resolve to carry on even when separated from her parents, or even any real hope for her family's survival. |
| NewsBlazePrairie MillerAn eloquent and disturbing journey of a French girl surviving the Holocaust as it played out in that country. And reflecting the trend in movies like Inglorious Basterds and the Czech film Protecktor, focusing on the female experience of the Holocaust. |
| Boston PhoenixBetsy ShermanSarah's Key is a superior "woman in the present becomes obsessed with woman in the past" narrative. |
| JWRS. James WeggPaquet-Brenner ... delivers the film's climax with a series of reaction shots from the horrified onlookers that paints a more gruesome picture than if the object of their revulsion was ever seen. It's unforgettable: here's filmmaking at its best. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezUnlike most films about the Holocaust, which has provided artists with an infinite array of heartrending stories and tragedies, Sarah's Key doesn't spend much time recounting the horrors that Jews suffered during World War II. |