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Blogs by Jerome Parisse Sarah's Key 1/19/2011 3:55:50 PMI don't know what Tatiana de Rosnay's novel "Sarah's Key" is like, but I found the movie based on it, "Her name was Sarah", outstanding. This 2010 film was directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner and stars Kristin Scott Thomas, one of my favourite actresses. Scott Thomas is just perfect as Julia Jarmond, a journalist who is in charge of writing a story about Sarah, a ten year-old girl arrested with her family by the French police in Paris in July 1942, along many other Jewish people. Sarah locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment to make sure he does not get arrested and makes him promise to remain quiet until she comes back for him a few hours later. Unfortunately, she will be made prisoner in a camp outside Paris, waiting to be deported to a concentration camp in Germany or Poland. Jarmond will do everything she can to uncover the truth about what really happened to Sarah and her family, and this will drag her much further than she could ever have imagined when she started writing her article. This is a terrible story, but unfortunately the story of millions of Jews during the second World War. The film touches on the responsibility of the French in the event, it touches on what happened to some of the prisoners, on what happened to their houses, on what happened to their families... It is impossible not to feel for Sarah and her terrible fate - many people in the audience had tears in their eyes - but it is not another holocaust story. It is about Sarah, her life and her death - and what it means to be human. I loved it. Scott Thomas is bilingual, and she was perfect for the role. I'm going to watch it again. Post a Comment More Blogs by Jerome Parisse • Body Swap Interview and Yunnan Trip... - Thursday, March 10, 2011 • The Corrections - Wednesday, March 9, 2011 • Buried - Wednesday, March 9, 2011 • Black Swan - Monday, March 7, 2011 • Educating Rita - Sunday, February 27, 2011 • Bidrman, by Mo hayder - Sunday, February 27, 2011 • The Insomnia of Stars - Wednesday, February 23, 2011 • If I Stay, by Gayle Forman - Wednesday, February 23, 2011 • Blacklands by Belinda bauer - Wednesday, February 16, 2011 • Where is Marc Levy's respect for his readers? - Saturday, February 12, 2011 • The Wings of Leo Spencer at $10 only! - Wednesday, February 9, 2011 • Boracay, twenty years later - Tuesday, February 8, 2011 • Hereafter - Tuesday, February 8, 2011 • Gone (Mo Hayder) - Tuesday, February 8, 2011 • Free e-books until 6 February! - Monday, January 31, 2011 • Two Brothers - Sunday, January 30, 2011 • Miserere - Saturday, January 29, 2011 • Shanghai - Saturday, January 22, 2011 • 3 e-books for free until 6 January! - Thursday, January 20, 2011 • A Spot of Bother - Thursday, January 20, 2011 • Sarah's Key - Wednesday, January 19, 2011 • The Tree - Tuesday, January 18, 2011 • Norwegian Wood - Tuesday, January 18, 2011 • The American - Tuesday, January 18, 2011 • Eat Pray Love - Saturday, January 8, 2011 • 50 literature ideas you really need to know, by John Sutherland - Saturday, January 8, 2011 • Aftershock - Thursday, January 6, 2011 • Room by Emma Donoghue - Tuesday, January 4, 2011 • Harry Potter and the Deahtly Hallows - Friday, December 17, 2010 • The art of happiness - Thursday, December 16, 2010 • The Scold's Bridle by Minette Walters - Wednesday, December 15, 2010 • Worst film ever? - Sunday, December 12, 2010 • Trailer for BODY SWAP - Friday, December 10, 2010 • Hong Kong Murders - Monday, December 6, 2010 • The kids are all right - Monday, December 6, 2010 • The Killing Fields - My Father's Guests - Tuesday, November 30, 2010 • Interview on Body Swap and publishing on Kindle by David Wisehart - Friday, November 26, 2010 • The Animated Version of the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival - Monday, November 22, 2010 • What is it about Japan? - Saturday, November 13, 2010 • The Ice House - Sunday, November 7, 2010 • Body Swap - Wednesday, November 3, 2010 • Taipei: the city that reads... - Tuesday, November 2, 2010 • Free royalty-free music - Monday, October 25, 2010 • Trailer for THE WINGS OF LEO SPENCER - Saturday, October 23, 2010 • Reference Material for Learning Chinese - Saturday, October 23, 2010 • The world’s first text message adventure romance with the other side! - Wednesday, October 20, 2010 • Grease.... or a failed English test - Monday, October 18, 2010 • The jungle temples of Angkor, Cambodia - Wednesday, October 13, 2010 • A little lower than the angels - Wednesday, October 13, 2010 • 61 Hours by Lee Child - Friday, October 1, 2010 • The obsessions of Amelie Nothomb - Monday, September 27, 2010 • Kaohsiung, the friendly city - Sunday, September 26, 2010 • A concise history of Hong Kong - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 • Nicaragua, twenty years on... - Monday, September 20, 2010 • We all make mistakes, don't we? - Saturday, September 18, 2010 • Serena - Thursday, September 16, 2010 • Early works: Coben takes us for a ride - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 • Tokyo / The Devil of Nanking - Sunday, September 12, 2010 • Young and bold - Saturday, September 11, 2010 • Gay marriage anyone? - Thursday, September 9, 2010 • iPad anyone? - Wednesday, September 8, 2010 • Online book promotion: The French strike again! - Tuesday, September 7, 2010 • Blood Canticle - Monday, September 6, 2010 • More Vampires! 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