Sarah's Key

In 1942, Paris a young girl named Sarah and her parents are arrested, and sent off to concentration camps, where they will struggle through disturbing events, and hatred. But Sarah has locked her brother in a cupboard at home, in the reason that she wants him to be safe, but what she does not realize is that she won't be coming back. She has locked that cupboard, promising him that she'll come back soon. Many years after, a journalist named Julia is to write a story on the deported Jews in 1942. Soon, she discovers that her father-in-law's apartment which she recently moved in, once belonged to Sarah and her family. Her mission is now to uncover her tragic story, and find her in the process.

Sarah's Key is a faithful adaptation of the novel, in which follows the same title and is written by Tatiana de Rosnay. This means, that there are both benefits and disadvantages to the film. The benefits are that reader's of the story should be satisfied by the movie because it is practically the same, except at a faster pace. The disadvantages are that because the book moves back and forth between two different stories, there is not enough emotion. First there comes a part of Sarah's fatal story, and then after that there comes a part of Julia's story, which tends to kill the mood after a just a few scenes. It's not that it's a bad plot order, because the book is able to handle it quite professionally. But the movie does not, and this is because of its short time-length. Perhap's the big question here is, "Was Sarah's Key better left off as a book, rather than a movie?" Most wisely, the answer is yes. So, if your interested in this film, you should read the novel first in reason that it is far greater.

Rating: 2½/5