Sarah's Key (2010)
- Original title
- Elle s'appelait Sarah
- Directed by
- Gilles Paquet-Brenner
- Genre
- drama film, war film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Rated
- PG-13
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 721 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A journalist in 2009 uncovers the story of a young Jewish girl who was caught in a mass roundup of families in Paris during World War Two. The film cuts between the girl's desperate escape and the journalist's present-day search for the truth.
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What happens
Sarah's Key (French: Elle s'appelait Sarah) is a 2010 French drama film directed and co-written by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. The film is an adaptation of the 2006 novel by Tatiana de Rosnay. The film alternates between a young girl Sarah (Mélusine Mayance) in 1942 and journalist Julia (Kristin Scott Thomas) in 2009 who is researching Sarah's story. It tells the story of Sarah's experiences during and after the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of Jews in German-occupied Paris in 1942 and the participation of bureaucracy in Vichy France and French citizens hiding and protecting Sarah from the French authorities. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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