Sarah's Key (2010) Reviews

(MU) Great story. The boy kept closed, because he promised her sister, in the closet, and find by her as a corpse some days after; is so hard tthat she couldn'r make a life, she just borrowed time and have a child; Kristin Scott Thomas just intertwin and search for the story...

To be honest, I had no idea what to expect from this flick but since the ratings were pretty decent and since I have a weak spot for Kristin Scott Thomas, I thought I might as well check it out. Eventually, it reminded me of what one of my uncles use to say, that enough movies about WWII has been made by now and that he has lost any interest in the genre. Well, even if he might be right, there are still some exceptions and this movie was definitely one of them. Indeed, it turned out to be such a powerful and emotional story. First of all, it wasn't the first movie framing such a tale within a modern plotline and it is usually a rather useless gimmick but I can't remember the last time I saw a movie where it worked so well. On top of that, Kristin Scott Thomas was once again really strong here. Still, there were a couple of things that didn't really work though. Some of them were just some small details like her two young American colleagues who were just so annoying and who sounded so fake, especially next to Thomas who was always pitch-perfect. A bigger issue was her struggle with her late pregnancy. Indeed, it could have been easily removed. Above all, I thought it was rather hard to believe that her husband would have had such a reaction. Indeed, after trying without success for maybe a decade to get a baby, years later, his wife managed to get pregnant by accident and, yet, he still rejected it which made the guy fairly despicable. In fact, a whole movie could have been made focusing only on this storyline but it wasn't needed here. Anyway, to conclude, this movie turned out be a nice surprise and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.