2011
July 2011
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Wed 13 Jul, 7:30-9:15 pm. 334 Amsterdam Avenue, New York. 646-505-5708. 5. JCC in Manhattan - [email][events]
Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner (111min, France, 2011) Based on Tatiana de Rosnay's New York Times best seller, 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 Sara