Elle s'appelait Sarah (2010)

English titles: Sarah's Key; Her Name Was Sarah.

Two plots in different periods develop: in 1942, a Jewish girl and her family are taken from home and sent to camps during the Vélodrome d'Hiver Roundup episode; in present times, a journalist who wrote a story for a magazine about the Roundup finds out that her husband's family has a connection with that event.

Although the sequence at the Vel d'Hiv is quite impressive, the rest of the movie does not hold up to that level of impact. To be fair, the part set in the 1940s is somewhat interesting, even though not all of it is very plausible. The modern-day drama, however, is quite tedious, and doesn't sit too comfortably with the other part of the movie. To make things worse, one never gets a sense of why the journalist character becomes so personally obsessed with the titular character.

Rating: 32