Tuesday evening I had the pleasure of attending a premier screening for Sarah's Key. The movie is actually based on the gripping book written by Tatiana de Rosnay.
"De Rosnay's U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tézac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vél' d'Hiv' roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand's family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers—especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive—the more she uncovers about Bertrand's family, about France and, finally, herself. Already translated into 15 languages, the novel is De Rosnay's 10th (but her first written in English, her first language). It beautifully conveys Julia's conflicting loyalties, and makes Sarah's trials so riveting, her innocence so absorbing, that the book is hard to put down."
Lucky for us the author of Sarah's Key just so happened to make an appearance at our screening! It was Tatiana's first time in Dallas. She lives in Paris and is the epitome of Parisian chic. So was so eloquent and we loved hearing her opinion on the movie as well as other details about her career and life.
A special perk for attending this premier screening was that each attendant received a copy of Sarah's Key!
Southern Vogue and I were so excited about this. Not only did we get to see the movie before it comes out, we met the author and took a copy of the book home!
"De Rosnay's U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tézac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vél' d'Hiv' roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand's family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers—especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive—the more she uncovers about Bertrand's family, about France and, finally, herself. Already translated into 15 languages, the novel is De Rosnay's 10th (but her first written in English, her first language). It beautifully conveys Julia's conflicting loyalties, and makes Sarah's trials so riveting, her innocence so absorbing, that the book is hard to put down."Lucky for us the author of Sarah's Key just so happened to make an appearance at our screening! It was Tatiana's first time in Dallas. She lives in Paris and is the epitome of Parisian chic. So was so eloquent and we loved hearing her opinion on the movie as well as other details about her career and life.
A special perk for attending this premier screening was that each attendant received a copy of Sarah's Key!
Southern Vogue and I were so excited about this. Not only did we get to see the movie before it comes out, we met the author and took a copy of the book home!
Though the movie was incredibly sad it was EXTREMELY well done. The child actress that plays young Sarah is phenomenal as is Kristin Scott Thomas. The movie was highly emotional and brought a horrific event to the bring screen. In today's day and age I think many people have forgotten how terrible the war was for the entire world. Though we take history classes in school it is easy to put things at the back of your mind, but this movie served as a great reminder that lives were forever changed by the war. Homes were ransacked and abandoned. Businesses were lost. Many families lineages just ended in concentration camps. People of all ages suffered and died. Sarah's Key is fabulously done and truly gripping film.
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