These days, the number of indies premiering on a weekly basis can be both thrilling and intimidating. To help sift through the number of new releases (independent or otherwise), we've created the Weekly Film Guide. Below you'll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for today's fresh offerings. Happy viewing! Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, May 30th. (Synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.) Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas Director: Arnaud des PallièresCast: Mads Mikkelsen, Mélusine Mayance, Delphine Chuillot, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Denis Lavant, Roxane Duran, Paul Bartel, David Bennent, Swann Arlaud, Sergi Lopez, Amira Casar, Jacques Nolot, Christian Chaussex, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Laurent Delbecque, Guillaume DelaunaySynopsis: "With the age of feudalism in decline, Europe rests at a tense crossroads between the old world and the new. Respected, well-to-do horse merchant Michael...
- 5/30/2014
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Mélusine Mayance, Delphine Chuillot, Swann Arlaud, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Denis Lavant, Roxane Duran | Written by Arnaud des Pallières, Christelle Berthevas | Directed by Arnaud des Pallières
In the 16th Century, in the Cévennes, Michael Kohlhaas (Mads Mikkelsen) is leading a happy life with his family raising horses to sell at the market. When a corrupt Baron (Swann Arlaud) seizes some of his horses and mistreats them, Kohlhaas attempts to sue the Baron for the damage but due to the Baron’s influence in local government finds his case is ignored. When his wife travels to plead his case to the royal family she returns fatally injured leading to Kohlhaas forming a rebellion aimed at taking down the Baron and his cohorts and regain the rights he feels he has lost.
When a character like Kohlhaas forms a rebellion you would expect there to be some action, and...
In the 16th Century, in the Cévennes, Michael Kohlhaas (Mads Mikkelsen) is leading a happy life with his family raising horses to sell at the market. When a corrupt Baron (Swann Arlaud) seizes some of his horses and mistreats them, Kohlhaas attempts to sue the Baron for the damage but due to the Baron’s influence in local government finds his case is ignored. When his wife travels to plead his case to the royal family she returns fatally injured leading to Kohlhaas forming a rebellion aimed at taking down the Baron and his cohorts and regain the rights he feels he has lost.
When a character like Kohlhaas forms a rebellion you would expect there to be some action, and...
- 3/9/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Mads Mikkelsen is one of the most engaging actors in the world right now, and if you've yet to check out TVs Hannibal then what are you waiting for, an invitation to dinner? So it's easy to see why distributors might be lining up to release his theatrical outings. Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas is not your typical blood-soaked medieval epic, nor is it a good example of Mikkelsen's undisputed screen presence. It's a long, hard slog through the marshes of cinematic wasteland, an emotional vacuum that could've been and should've been so much more. The film takes us back to 16th century France, where Michael Kohlhaas is making a living as a horse dealer. He lives with his wife and daughter in the peaceful, picturesque countryside. Things take a turn for the worse when a rapacious baron seizes his livelihood and defiles his family's honour. Kohlhaas...
- 3/2/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
Mads Mikkelsen is one of the most engaging actors in the world right now, and if you've yet to check out TVs Hannibal then what are you waiting for, an invitation to dinner? So it's easy to see why distributors might be lining up to release his theatrical outings. Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas is not your typical blood-soaked medieval epic, nor is it a good example of Mikkelsen's undisputed screen presence. It's a long, hard slog through the marshes of cinematic wasteland, an emotional vacuum that could've been and should've been so much more. The film takes us back to 16th century France, where Michael Kohlhaas is making a living as a horse dealer. He lives with his wife and daughter in the peaceful, picturesque countryside. Things take a turn for the worse when a rapacious baron seizes his livelihood and defiles his family's honour. Kohlhaas...
- 3/2/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
With a mere matter of moments into Arnaud des Palliéres’ 16th century set, Palme d’Or nominated Age of Uprising, an uncomfortable, disquieting atmosphere is created, and it’s a tone which then takes precedence over the rest of the movie. Here is a feature that opts for a more subtle, naturalistic approach over a typically overstated, gung-ho style that often blights period dramas.
Based on a true story, Age of Uprising is set in the South of France, as we delve into the life of a horse dealer Michael Kohlhaas (Mads Mikkelsen), who lives a comfortable life with his wife (Delphine Chuillot) and young daughter (Mélusine Mayance). However Kohlhaas is a man of principles, and when he’s disrespected by a lord in a dispute over two of his horses – his wife heads over to the palace to argue his case, but is brutally murdered in her attempt. Our...
Based on a true story, Age of Uprising is set in the South of France, as we delve into the life of a horse dealer Michael Kohlhaas (Mads Mikkelsen), who lives a comfortable life with his wife (Delphine Chuillot) and young daughter (Mélusine Mayance). However Kohlhaas is a man of principles, and when he’s disrespected by a lord in a dispute over two of his horses – his wife heads over to the palace to argue his case, but is brutally murdered in her attempt. Our...
- 12/30/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
★★★★☆ The 66th Cannes Film Festival just got medieval on our asses with Arnaud des Pallières' Palme d'Or outsider Michael Kohlhaas (2013), a tale of injustice and revolt set in 16th century France. Adapted from the Heinrich von Kleist novella, Pallières' latest follows the plight of its eponymous hero (Denmark's Mads Mikkelsen), a happy and prosperous family man and horse trader who suffers an injustice at the hands of an arrogant young baron. Kohlhaas seeks redress legally, only to be rebuffed and threatened. Tragedy strikes when Judith, his wife (Delphine Chuillot), is murdered, leading our protagonist on the path to vengeance.
The towering Mikkelsen wowed Cannes last year as a teacher stubbornly refusing to bow to injustice in Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt (Jagten, 2012). Injustice is one again on the menu here; however, as an actor in possession of a range as epic as the Cevénnes landscape against which his latest film plays against,...
The towering Mikkelsen wowed Cannes last year as a teacher stubbornly refusing to bow to injustice in Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt (Jagten, 2012). Injustice is one again on the menu here; however, as an actor in possession of a range as epic as the Cevénnes landscape against which his latest film plays against,...
- 5/29/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Title: Sarah’s Key Directed by: Gilles Paquet-Brenner Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frederic Pierrot and Aidan Quinn Running time: 111 minutes, Rated PG-13, Available on Blu-ray Based on the international bestselling novel by Tatiana de Rosnay is the story of Julia, an American journalist living in Paris who is writing an article on the anniversary of France’s notorious 1942 Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup of Jews in World War II. Julia (Kristin Scott Thomas) discovers that her French husband’s family’s apartment belonged to the Starzynski family, who were involved with the roundup and sent to concentration camps. In order to get a more personal feel to her pending article,...
- 1/29/2012
- by juliana
- ShockYa
Chicago – Sometimes one performance can bolster the impact of an entire production. That’s certainly the case with Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s overlooked adaptation of Tatiana de Rosnay’s bestseller. Though the picture’s marquee name is Kristin Scott Thomas, her character merely provides a modern framework for the real story, set during the massive 1942 deportation of Jewish civilians from France.
Though de Rosnay’s tale is a work of fiction, it is entirely grounded within the reality of its time period and locations, such as the indoor track, Vélodrome d’Hiver, where prisoners were stored before being transported to various camps (in this case, Beune-la-Rolande). What makes “Key” particularly disturbing is that fact that it views these horrors through the perspective of its titular child. She’s played by ten-year-old Mélusine Mayance, who has already emerged as one of the most extraordinarily gifted actresses of her generation.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
In...
Though de Rosnay’s tale is a work of fiction, it is entirely grounded within the reality of its time period and locations, such as the indoor track, Vélodrome d’Hiver, where prisoners were stored before being transported to various camps (in this case, Beune-la-Rolande). What makes “Key” particularly disturbing is that fact that it views these horrors through the perspective of its titular child. She’s played by ten-year-old Mélusine Mayance, who has already emerged as one of the most extraordinarily gifted actresses of her generation.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
In...
- 12/15/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Hitting movie theaters this weekend:
Arthur Christmas - James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy
Hugo - Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee
The Muppets - Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Chris Cooper
Movie of the Week
Hugo
The Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee
The Plot: Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
The Buzz: Director Martin Scorsese is not known for his family films. Throughout his career Scorsese has stuck to churning out gritty/grisly street films, realistic & vibrant tales about the harshness of life, about the hard-nose battle of good versus evil, of right versus wrong (of moral relativity), and of psychoses versus neuroses. His films are fairly hardcore and as thus are very often hard-r. His latest offering in Hugo, looks to be an...
Arthur Christmas - James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy
Hugo - Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee
The Muppets - Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Chris Cooper
Movie of the Week
Hugo
The Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee
The Plot: Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
The Buzz: Director Martin Scorsese is not known for his family films. Throughout his career Scorsese has stuck to churning out gritty/grisly street films, realistic & vibrant tales about the harshness of life, about the hard-nose battle of good versus evil, of right versus wrong (of moral relativity), and of psychoses versus neuroses. His films are fairly hardcore and as thus are very often hard-r. His latest offering in Hugo, looks to be an...
- 11/23/2011
- by Aaron Ruffcorn
- The Scorecard Review
I’m delighted to see that the Weinstein Company is re-releasing one of the year’s most overlooked films, Sarah’s Key, the moving adaptation of Tatiana De Rosnay’s international best-seller. It’s one of the year’s best films. Kristin Scott Thomas plays an American-born journalist who lives in France with her husband and daughter. While researching an article about the fate of French Jews during World War Two, she stumbles onto an incredible story involving a little girl named Sarah (played by newcomer Mélusine Mayance) who is separated from her family. An unexpected connection with Sarah turns Scott Thomas’ journalistic enterprise into a...
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- 11/4/2011
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
I’m delighted to see that the Weinstein Company is re-releasing one of the year’s most overlooked films, Sarah’s Key, the moving adaptation of Tatiana De Rosnay’s international best-seller. It’s one of the year’s best films. Kristin Scott Thomas plays an American-born journalist who lives in France with her husband and daughter. While researching an article about the fate of French Jews during World War Two, she stumbles onto an incredible story involving a little girl named Sarah (played by newcomer Mélusine Mayance) who is separated from her family. An unexpected connection with Sarah turns Scott Thomas’ journalistic enterprise into a personal odyssey.
- 11/4/2011
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
I’m delighted to see that the Weinstein Company is re-releasing one of the year’s most overlooked films, Sarah’s Key, the moving adaptation of Tatiana De Rosnay’s international best-seller. It’s one of the year’s best films. Kristin Scott Thomas plays an American-born journalist who lives in France with her husband and daughter. While researching an article about the fate of French Jews during World War Two, she stumbles onto an incredible story involving a little girl named Sarah (played by newcomer Mélusine Mayance) who is separated from her family. An unexpected connection with Sarah turns Scott Thomas’ journalistic enterprise into a…...
- 11/4/2011
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Release Date: Nov. 22, 2011
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Anchor Bay
Kristin Scott Thomas stars in Sarah's Key.
Based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s bestselling novel,
the 2010 mystery-drama war film Sarah’s Key stars Oscar nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) and features a co-starring turn by Aidan Quinn (Handsome Harry).
The movie tells the story of Julia Jarmond (Thomas), an American journalist living in Paris with her French husband Bertrand (Frédéric Pierrot), who is assigned to cover the anniversary of France’s notorious 1942 Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup of Jews in World War II. Jarmond is stunned to discover that Bertrand’s family apartment was the scene of an unspeakable incident committed during the war and that his family has been concealing a disturbing secret. But there’s a young French girl, Sarah (Mélusine Mayance), who holds the key to unlock the devastating truth.
Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Walled In) and acclaimed by the critics,...
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Anchor Bay
Kristin Scott Thomas stars in Sarah's Key.
Based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s bestselling novel,
the 2010 mystery-drama war film Sarah’s Key stars Oscar nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) and features a co-starring turn by Aidan Quinn (Handsome Harry).
The movie tells the story of Julia Jarmond (Thomas), an American journalist living in Paris with her French husband Bertrand (Frédéric Pierrot), who is assigned to cover the anniversary of France’s notorious 1942 Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup of Jews in World War II. Jarmond is stunned to discover that Bertrand’s family apartment was the scene of an unspeakable incident committed during the war and that his family has been concealing a disturbing secret. But there’s a young French girl, Sarah (Mélusine Mayance), who holds the key to unlock the devastating truth.
Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Walled In) and acclaimed by the critics,...
- 10/5/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Super 8 (12A)
(Jj Abrams, 2011, Us) Riley Griffiths, Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler. 112 mins
With Steven Spielberg producing, neo-sci-fi superstar Jj Abrams harks back to the kid-friendly action fantasies of the 80s (Et, The Goonies) while adding a few modern monster-movie scares of his own. The two genres don't always sit well together, and the retro lens flare becomes wearing, but Super 8 has character and charm, especially in the three young leads, whose plans to make a super-8 zombie movie are scuppered by the arrival of a dangerous creature.
French Cancan (PG)
(Jean Renoir, 1954, Fr) Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Maria Félix. 104 mins
Digital restoration of Renoir's salute to the swinging, sensual Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec et al. Gabin stars as the ambitious entrepreneur whose plan to spice up his new nightclub, the Moulin Rouge, with dancing girls creates a new star, a new craze and a love triangle.
Knuckle (15)
(Ian Palmer,...
(Jj Abrams, 2011, Us) Riley Griffiths, Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler. 112 mins
With Steven Spielberg producing, neo-sci-fi superstar Jj Abrams harks back to the kid-friendly action fantasies of the 80s (Et, The Goonies) while adding a few modern monster-movie scares of his own. The two genres don't always sit well together, and the retro lens flare becomes wearing, but Super 8 has character and charm, especially in the three young leads, whose plans to make a super-8 zombie movie are scuppered by the arrival of a dangerous creature.
French Cancan (PG)
(Jean Renoir, 1954, Fr) Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Maria Félix. 104 mins
Digital restoration of Renoir's salute to the swinging, sensual Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec et al. Gabin stars as the ambitious entrepreneur whose plan to spice up his new nightclub, the Moulin Rouge, with dancing girls creates a new star, a new craze and a love triangle.
Knuckle (15)
(Ian Palmer,...
- 8/5/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Dominic Cooper as either Uday Hussein or Latif Yahia in Lee Tamahori's The Devil's Double Steve Carell-Julianne Moore-Ryan Gosling-Emma Stone's Crazy, Stupid, Love Okay, Michael Bay-Shia Labeouf's Transformers 3 to Reach $1 Billion Worldwide: Box Office The Sarah Palin movie The Undefeated plummeted once again at the North American box office this weekend (July 29-31), according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. After losing 10 of its 14 theaters, The Undefeated collected a meager $5,200 over the weekend — down a horrific 79% — and a dismal $1,300 per venue. Last weekend, The Undefeated was down 62% despite a 40% rise in the number of theaters showing the film. Sarah Palin fans shouldn't despair. Next February, both the former U.S. vice-presidential candidate and The Undefeated movie should be up for Razzie Awards — handed out to the very worst cinematic mis-accomplishments of the year. Starring Mamma Mia!
- 8/1/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Chicago – The old saying, “those who cannot remember the past is doomed to repeat it” applies succinctly in “Sarah’s Key,” a Holocaust film with a French twist. Kristin Scott Thomas plays an American journalist who uncovers the facts in a less-remembered incident that reverberates to now.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
This film is essentially about the incident itself and the aftermath. The event is a rock thrown into a pond, with the waves from the splash resonating over 60 years. This is the French side of the Nazi occupation, and their complicity in the round-up and extermination of the Jewish population in Paris. The characters may be fictional, but this horror story of the war cannot hide its abominable truth.
Julia Jarmond (Kristin Scott Thomas) is an hot-shot American journalist who has taken a job in Paris with an investigative magazine. While her husband Bertrand (Frédéric Pierrot) renovates an apartment he got in a family inheritance,...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
This film is essentially about the incident itself and the aftermath. The event is a rock thrown into a pond, with the waves from the splash resonating over 60 years. This is the French side of the Nazi occupation, and their complicity in the round-up and extermination of the Jewish population in Paris. The characters may be fictional, but this horror story of the war cannot hide its abominable truth.
Julia Jarmond (Kristin Scott Thomas) is an hot-shot American journalist who has taken a job in Paris with an investigative magazine. While her husband Bertrand (Frédéric Pierrot) renovates an apartment he got in a family inheritance,...
- 7/30/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In Sarah’s Key, an American journalist marries the Frenchman of her dreams and years later they move into a place that his family had lived in years before. But her research on the Vélodrome d’Hive roundup of Jews during World War II uncovers a connection to her new home, a connection that leads her on a desperate search for the truth of what really went on in Paris in that terrible time.
A bit of back-story for those of you who, like me, had never heard of this period in history. The Vélodrome d’Hive roundup in France in 1942 was when French police — supposedly in an attempt to remain autonomous from the German government during the French occupation — rounded up people of Jewish ancestry and put them in the “Vel’ d’Hiv”. This lasted for days, with no fresh air, no bathrooms and very little water. In the movie,...
A bit of back-story for those of you who, like me, had never heard of this period in history. The Vélodrome d’Hive roundup in France in 1942 was when French police — supposedly in an attempt to remain autonomous from the German government during the French occupation — rounded up people of Jewish ancestry and put them in the “Vel’ d’Hiv”. This lasted for days, with no fresh air, no bathrooms and very little water. In the movie,...
- 7/29/2011
- by Denise Kitashima Dutton
- Atomic Popcorn
Chicago – For every instance of “monumental” history, there are a series of events surrounding it that gets swept under the rug, but have the same bearing as the bigger occurrence. Director Gilles Paquet-Brenner tells one of those background stories in “Sarah’s Key,” a sorrowful piece of French history during World War II.
The centerpiece in the film is the Vel´d’Hiv incident, a round-up of Jewish people in Paris during the Nazi occupation there. The Vel´d’Hiv was a sports stadium, and French officials put the captured Jews into the arena without sufficient food, water and facilities. One character likened it to the New Orleans Superdome during the Katrina Hurricane crisis, but “a million times” worse.
French director Gilles Paquet-Brenner adapted Sarah’s Key from a popular novel that uses the Vel´d’Hiv as a launching point for the tortured story of Sarah Starzynski, who at...
The centerpiece in the film is the Vel´d’Hiv incident, a round-up of Jewish people in Paris during the Nazi occupation there. The Vel´d’Hiv was a sports stadium, and French officials put the captured Jews into the arena without sufficient food, water and facilities. One character likened it to the New Orleans Superdome during the Katrina Hurricane crisis, but “a million times” worse.
French director Gilles Paquet-Brenner adapted Sarah’s Key from a popular novel that uses the Vel´d’Hiv as a launching point for the tortured story of Sarah Starzynski, who at...
- 7/28/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Kristin Scott Thomas, Sarah's Key Blame it on a liberal/left-wing conspiracy, Obama's repressive policies, or Captain America: The First Avenger, but despite the addition of four theaters — or a 40% increase in venues — the Sarah Palin movie The Undefeated plummeted 63% on its second weekend out. At 14 locations, The Undefeated collected a dismal $24,000, for a per-theater average of $1,714, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Expect Sarah Palin and The Undefeated to disappear from North American screens very shortly. That is, until both Palin and the Stephen K. Bannon-directed documentary inevitably resurface early next year at the Razzie Awards. Performing much better in limited release was The Weinstein Company-distributed Sarah's Key, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, and featuring Kristin Scott Thomas and Mélusine Mayance. The Holocaust-related drama collected $117k at five theaters, averaging $23,400 per site. Additionally, Sarah's Key has already taken in $13.42m overseas, chiefly in France ($6.41m) and...
- 7/25/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Everett Kristin Scott Thomas in “Sarah’s Key”
“Sarah’s Key” is the film adaptation of Tatiana de Rosnay’s historical novel about the 1942 Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup, by director Gilles Paquet-Brenner.
The film stars Kristin Scott Thomas as Julia Jarmond, an American journalist living in Paris who investigates the incident in which several thousands of Jewish people were arrested and imprisoned by the occupied Vichy government.
As Julia investigates the tragic event, she slowly becomes obsessed with the story of Sarah,...
“Sarah’s Key” is the film adaptation of Tatiana de Rosnay’s historical novel about the 1942 Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup, by director Gilles Paquet-Brenner.
The film stars Kristin Scott Thomas as Julia Jarmond, an American journalist living in Paris who investigates the incident in which several thousands of Jewish people were arrested and imprisoned by the occupied Vichy government.
As Julia investigates the tragic event, she slowly becomes obsessed with the story of Sarah,...
- 7/22/2011
- by Nick Andersen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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
If there is any justice this summer that’s not being meted out by a comic-book superhero, discerning moviegoers will find their way to Sarah’s Key, the moving adaptation of Tatiana De Rosnay’s international best-seller. It’s one of the year’s best films. Kristin Scott Thomas plays an American-born journalist who lives in France with her husband and daughter. While researching an article about the fate of French Jews during World War Two, she stumbles onto an incredible story involving a little girl named Sarah (played by newcomer Mélusine Mayance) who is separated from her family. An unexpected connection with Sarah turns…...
- 7/22/2011
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Getty Tatiana de Rosnay and actress Charlotte Poutrel
Tatiana de Rosnay was an established journalist and author of several French novels when she decided, 10 years ago, to write a book in English about the 1942 Vélodrome d’Hiver roundup, in which the French police arrested 10,000 Parisian Jews, including 4,000 children, and detained them for days under horrifying conditions before deporting them to Auschwitz. After struggling for three years to get the book published, “Sarah’s Key” went on to sell 5 million copies in 38 countries.
Tatiana de Rosnay was an established journalist and author of several French novels when she decided, 10 years ago, to write a book in English about the 1942 Vélodrome d’Hiver roundup, in which the French police arrested 10,000 Parisian Jews, including 4,000 children, and detained them for days under horrifying conditions before deporting them to Auschwitz. After struggling for three years to get the book published, “Sarah’s Key” went on to sell 5 million copies in 38 countries.
- 7/15/2011
- by Rachel Dodes
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Paris 2009; a journalist Julia (Kristen Scott Thomas) becomes obsessed with a discovery in her family that leads to a young girl whose own family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of the Jewish people. 1942 Paris, and young Sarah (Mélusine Mayance) as the stand out as this incredibly brave and intelligent little girl, is playing with her brother and it is only these opening moments of genuine happiness that exist in Sarah's Key. This is Nazi occupied France and Sarah is Jewish, the French police arrest them and she is taken to the velodrome along with her mother and father. In 2009 Julia comments on the velodrome 'like the stadium during hurricane Katrina only a million times worse'. Flashback again to...
- 6/14/2011
- Screen Anarchy
The Weinstein Company has debuted the official trailer and poster for “Sarah’s Key,” based on the bestselling novel written by Tatiana de Rosnay.
Synopsis: Sarah’s Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down.
In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Nearly seventy years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah’s family was forced to leave is about to become her own.
Synopsis: Sarah’s Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down.
In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Nearly seventy years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah’s family was forced to leave is about to become her own.
- 6/7/2011
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
See the movie trailer and image from Sarah's Key, starring Kristen Scott Thomas. Gilles Paquet-Brenner directs the incredible-looking drama which is being sent out by The Weinstein Company on July 22nd this year. Also known as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the film includes Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominque Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn and Natasha Mashkevich. Sarah's Key comes from a screenplay by Serge Joncour and Paquet-Brenner, based on the New York Times best seller written by Tatiana de Rosnay...
- 6/7/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the movie trailer and image from Sarah's Key, starring Kristen Scott Thomas. Gilles Paquet-Brenner directs the incredible-looking drama which is being sent out by The Weinstein Company on July 22nd this year. Also known as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the film includes Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominque Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn and Natasha Mashkevich. Sarah's Key comes from a screenplay by Serge Joncour and Paquet-Brenner, based on the New York Times best seller written by Tatiana de Rosnay...
- 6/7/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the movie trailer and image from Sarah's Key, starring Kristen Scott Thomas. Gilles Paquet-Brenner directs the incredible-looking drama which is being sent out by The Weinstein Company on July 22nd this year. Also known as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the film includes Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominque Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn and Natasha Mashkevich. Sarah's Key comes from a screenplay by Serge Joncour and Paquet-Brenner, based on the New York Times best seller written by Tatiana de Rosnay...
- 6/7/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Chicago – The dreamy and lyrical often forges a duet with the brooding and ominous in the work of French auteur François Ozon, perhaps best known to American audiences for his 2003 mystery “Swimming Pool,” misleadingly billed as a Hitchcockian thriller. It was, in fact, a psychosexual drama about one uptight author’s self-actualization, and the mysterious young woman who sets it into motion.
This woman may or may not be the author’s younger, more liberated alter ego, though Ozon wisely blurs the lines of his puzzle pieces, opting for abstractness over exposition. His 2009 effort, “Ricky,” is much more of a straightforward fantasy, yet Ozon utilizes its playful imagery to paint a touching portrait of the perils and joys of parenthood. Released under the radar in America, this film is sure to delight unsuspecting audiences with its numerous beguiling plot twists.
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0
For about its first 40 minutes, Ozon leads viewers...
This woman may or may not be the author’s younger, more liberated alter ego, though Ozon wisely blurs the lines of his puzzle pieces, opting for abstractness over exposition. His 2009 effort, “Ricky,” is much more of a straightforward fantasy, yet Ozon utilizes its playful imagery to paint a touching portrait of the perils and joys of parenthood. Released under the radar in America, this film is sure to delight unsuspecting audiences with its numerous beguiling plot twists.
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0
For about its first 40 minutes, Ozon leads viewers...
- 4/8/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
I bet you missed me! Don’t worry… I’ll make it up to you! Here is a look at Sarah’S Key, a film based on the bestselling French Novel by Tatiana De Rosnay. Sarah’S Key stars Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient,Nowhere Boy, Confessions Of A Shopaholic, The Other Boleyn Girl) , Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn, and Natasha Mashkevich, and is scheduled for limited release on July 22.
Synopsis:
Paris, July 1942:
Ten-year-old Sarah is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard . their secret hiding place . and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty seven years later: Sarah.s story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond,...
Synopsis:
Paris, July 1942:
Ten-year-old Sarah is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard . their secret hiding place . and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty seven years later: Sarah.s story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond,...
- 3/10/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s “Sarah’s Key” has been selected to open the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The French film, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, will screen on Thursday, Jan. 27, at the Arlington Theatre. Both director and star are expected to be in attendance.
Due to open in the spring, “Sarah’s Key” is a Hugo Production of a Weinstein Company film.
Based on the international bestselling novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, the film interweaves two seemingly different stories, illustrating a remarkable connection between the past and present. The first story is that of Sarah Starzynski (Mélusine Mayance), a 10-year-old Jewish girl living in Paris during World War II. After the Vichy government and Nazi occupiers begin arresting Jews, Sarah attempts to save her family by locking her 4-year old brother in a cupboard. Seen through her eyes, Sarah and her parents are taken from their home and eventually sent to the Nazi death camps.
Due to open in the spring, “Sarah’s Key” is a Hugo Production of a Weinstein Company film.
Based on the international bestselling novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, the film interweaves two seemingly different stories, illustrating a remarkable connection between the past and present. The first story is that of Sarah Starzynski (Mélusine Mayance), a 10-year-old Jewish girl living in Paris during World War II. After the Vichy government and Nazi occupiers begin arresting Jews, Sarah attempts to save her family by locking her 4-year old brother in a cupboard. Seen through her eyes, Sarah and her parents are taken from their home and eventually sent to the Nazi death camps.
- 11/29/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Kristin Scott Thomas, Sarah's Key Gilles Paquet-Brenner's Elle s'appelait Sarah / Sarah's Key, about a connection between Nazi-occupied France and a couple living in modern-day Paris, will open the 2011 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which runs January 27-February 6. Paquet-Brenner and one of the film's leading players, Kristin Scott Thomas, are expected to be present at the screening. The opening night presentation will take place at the Arlington Theatre on Thursday, January 27. The information below is from the Santa Barbara Film Festival's press release: Based on the international bestselling novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, the film beautifully interweaves two seemingly different stories, illustrating a remarkable connection between the past and present. The first story is that of Sarah Starzynski (Mélusine Mayance), a ten year old Jewish girl living in Paris during World War II. After the Vichy government and Nazi occupiers begin arresting Jews, Sarah attempts to save her family [...]...
- 11/29/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The Toronto Film Festival is just getting underway, and already one film has been picked up for Us distribution. Sarah's Key, starring Kristen Scott Thomas, was picked up by The Weinstein Commpany today as the first official buy of the fest. More info on the film after the break, along with good breaks for Barney's Version with Paul Giamatti and Casino Jack with Kevin Spacey. Here's the festival rundown on Sarah's Key, which is directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner from a script by the director and Serge Joncour based on a book by Tatiana De Rosnay. The plot is actually quite intriguing...now, given that TWC bought this one, let's hope we actually see it.[Deadline] It is July, 1942 in Paris, and ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Mélusine Mayance) knows something is wrong. There is a panic spreading through the city. The French gendarmes, supposedly under order from the Vichy government and Nazi occupiers,...
- 9/10/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
In addition to the previously announced titles, Tiff just keeps adding more great stuff to their line-up.
The most recent announcement (I’m sure there are more to come), includes a couple of interesting titles along with a couple of heavy weights. Up front is Danny Boyle’s story of survival 127 Hours starring James Franco, Casey Affleck’s bizarre biopic/drama I’m Still Here (trailer), Guillem Morales’ great looking Spanish thriller Julia’s Eyes (trailer) and Matt Reeves’ remake Let Me In (trailer).
Other titles which sound promising include Mitch Glazer’s Passion Play, a fable starring Mickey Rourke and sex bomb Megan Fox, Álex de la Iglesia’s insane parody about the Spanish Civil War with clowns The Last Circus and Benoît Jacquot’s Deep in the Woods.
All of the new additions after the break.
Last Night Massy Tadjedin, USA/France World Premiere
A married couple are...
The most recent announcement (I’m sure there are more to come), includes a couple of interesting titles along with a couple of heavy weights. Up front is Danny Boyle’s story of survival 127 Hours starring James Franco, Casey Affleck’s bizarre biopic/drama I’m Still Here (trailer), Guillem Morales’ great looking Spanish thriller Julia’s Eyes (trailer) and Matt Reeves’ remake Let Me In (trailer).
Other titles which sound promising include Mitch Glazer’s Passion Play, a fable starring Mickey Rourke and sex bomb Megan Fox, Álex de la Iglesia’s insane parody about the Spanish Civil War with clowns The Last Circus and Benoît Jacquot’s Deep in the Woods.
All of the new additions after the break.
Last Night Massy Tadjedin, USA/France World Premiere
A married couple are...
- 8/18/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Yep. Matt Reeves' Let Me In is getting the Special Presentation treatment at the Toronto International Film Festival, along with the latest from Danny Boyle, John Sayles, Clint Eastwood and others. Here's today's announcement:
Toronto International Film Festival Adds New Galas And Special Presentations To Its High-calibre Line-up
Toronto - The Toronto International Film Festival announces the exciting addition of two Galas and 18 Special Presentations to this year's line-up, including 14 World Premieres. This year's Festival includes the world premieres of new films by Clint Eastwood, Danny Boyle, John Sayles, Guillem Morales and Stefano Incerti. The Galas and Special Presentations announced today feature on-screen appearances by Matt Damon, James Franco, Jennifer Connelly, Will Ferrell, Keira Knightley, Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Toni Servillo, Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox, Bill Murray, Charlotte Rampling, Emma Roberts and Eva Mendes.
Galas
Closing Night Film
Last Night Massy Tadjedin, USA/France World Premiere
A married couple...
Toronto International Film Festival Adds New Galas And Special Presentations To Its High-calibre Line-up
Toronto - The Toronto International Film Festival announces the exciting addition of two Galas and 18 Special Presentations to this year's line-up, including 14 World Premieres. This year's Festival includes the world premieres of new films by Clint Eastwood, Danny Boyle, John Sayles, Guillem Morales and Stefano Incerti. The Galas and Special Presentations announced today feature on-screen appearances by Matt Damon, James Franco, Jennifer Connelly, Will Ferrell, Keira Knightley, Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Toni Servillo, Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox, Bill Murray, Charlotte Rampling, Emma Roberts and Eva Mendes.
Galas
Closing Night Film
Last Night Massy Tadjedin, USA/France World Premiere
A married couple...
- 8/17/2010
- Screen Anarchy
I often mentioned how this was a Helen Mirren type of year, but Keira Knightley is challenging the silverscreen status with three titles which include Never Let Me Go, London Boulevard and the Tiff closer in Massy Tadjedin's Last Night (formerly known as Tell Me). The Miramax Films French/U.S co-production sort of looked "shelved" - the inactivity on the title which finished lensing a long time ago, was perhaps due to the distribution house not knowing what to do with the title, or the title having not tested well in its New Jersey screenings. The film stars Eva Mendes, Sam Worthington and Guillaume Canet who'll be presenting his latest directing effort in Little White Lies. The other Gala selected film is Gilles Paquet Brenner's Sarah’s Key (In French it goes by Elle S'appelait Sarah). Here' s the synopsis on this one. Based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel,...
- 8/17/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced the rest of its galas and premieres, and set a program of midnight screenings. The festival has added a diverse roster of films ranging from the Clint Eastwood-directed Hereafter to the Casey Affleck-directed Joaquin Phoenix documentary I'm Not Here to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire followup 127 Hours, to the Will Ferrell-starrer Everything Must Go. Here are the additions to the program: Gala Premieres * Last Night, Massy Tadjedin, USA/France World Premiere. The festival's closing night film. A married couple are apart for a night when the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's away, his wife encounters her past love. The film stars Keira Knightley, Eva Mendes, Sam Worthington and Guillaume Canet. *Sarah’s Key Gilles Paquet Brenner, France World Premiere. Based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel, Sarah’s Key tells...
- 8/17/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Now featured in independent film, we have the trailer for IFC Films' "Ricky," starring Alexandra Lamy, Sergi López, Mélusine Mayance and Arthur Peyret. François Ozon, director of 2003's "Swimming Pool," as well as "Un lever de rideau" ("The Curtain Raiser"), directs from his own screenplay. The foreign fantasy comedy opens in limited areas on December 16th and is a magical and mysterious tale that blends magic-realism and an affecting tale of family. When Katie, an ordinary woman, meets Paco, an ordinary man, they fall in love. After starting a life together, something truly extraordinary is added to the mix: a baby called Ricky. This miraculous creature brings the young family challenges no parent could be prepared for…...
- 11/19/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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