There’s a point in Sarah’s Key in which the story ends. We discover that which we have been waiting to discover. Then the film continues. For another hour. Our heroine Julia Jarmond (played in earnest by Kristin Scott Thomas) tells other characters in the film what we, the audience, already know. In fact, most of the characters she talks to already know the secret themselves. Over the course of two hours, this secret becomes anything but.
The problem, of course, is we know the whole story halfway through, after which point the inherent drama available in the film’s narrative disappears. Julia (Scott Thomas) is an American journalist working and living in Paris with her family, husband Bertrand Tezac (Frédéric Pierrot) and pre-teen daughter. The family is prepping to move into an old apartment the Tezacs have owned since around the time of WWII. Upon discovering that Bertrand...
The problem, of course, is we know the whole story halfway through, after which point the inherent drama available in the film’s narrative disappears. Julia (Scott Thomas) is an American journalist working and living in Paris with her family, husband Bertrand Tezac (Frédéric Pierrot) and pre-teen daughter. The family is prepping to move into an old apartment the Tezacs have owned since around the time of WWII. Upon discovering that Bertrand...
- 7/22/2011
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
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