A Frenchman in his early thirties returns to the farm of his childhood in the rural family drama Back Home (Revenir), a suitably down-to-earth adaptation of a work by French novelist Serge Joncour. It is the first feature from Paris-born filmmaker Jessica Palud, a former assistant director who has worked on several features from one of France’s greatest humanist filmmakers, Philippe Lioret (Welcome, All Our Desires). Lioret actually produced the film and also co-wrote the script with Palud and mono-monikered screenwriter Diasteme (Angel Face).
Former Xavier Dolan muse Niels Schneider (Heartbeats) and Blue Is the Warmest Color breakout Adele ...
Former Xavier Dolan muse Niels Schneider (Heartbeats) and Blue Is the Warmest Color breakout Adele ...
A Frenchman in his early thirties returns to the farm of his childhood in the rural family drama Back Home (Revenir), a suitably down-to-earth adaptation of a work by French novelist Serge Joncour. It is the first feature from Paris-born filmmaker Jessica Palud, a former assistant director who has worked on several features from one of France’s greatest humanist filmmakers, Philippe Lioret (Welcome, All Our Desires). Lioret actually produced the film and also co-wrote the script with Palud and mono-monikered screenwriter Diasteme (Angel Face).
Former Xavier Dolan muse Niels Schneider (Heartbeats) and Blue Is the Warmest Color breakout Adele ...
Former Xavier Dolan muse Niels Schneider (Heartbeats) and Blue Is the Warmest Color breakout Adele ...
Seen separately, the two main threads of Sarah’s Key look awfully familiar: One offers a tear-jerking child’s-eye view of the Holocaust, packed with all the anguish and horror the setting allows, while the other centers on a determined journalist digging up the truth, ignoring the cost to herself and her increasingly resentful family. But Tatiana De Rosnay’s novel uses them to comment intelligently on each other, and director Gilles Paquet-Brenner (again co-scripting with Serge Joncour; the two adapted Joncour’s novel Uv together in 2007) expands her vision, dramatizing her events convincingly, if not always creatively. In ...
- 7/21/2011
- avclub.com
Clips from Sarah's Key starring Kristin Scott Thomas. The Weinstein Company drama opens on July 22nd and is directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner from the script by Serge Joncour and Paquet-Brenner, based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Tatiana de Rosnay. 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...
- 7/17/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Clips from Sarah's Key starring Kristin Scott Thomas. The Weinstein Company drama opens on July 22nd and is directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner from the script by Serge Joncour and Paquet-Brenner, based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Tatiana de Rosnay. 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...
- 7/17/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Clips from Sarah's Key starring Kristin Scott Thomas. The Weinstein Company drama opens on July 22nd and is directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner from the script by Serge Joncour and Paquet-Brenner, based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Tatiana de Rosnay. 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...
- 7/17/2011
- 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
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
Sarah's Key
The Weinstein Co. has scored all U.S. rights to Gilles Paquet-Brenner's "Sarah's Key" starring Kristin Scott Thomas.
Based on Tatiana de Rosnay's bestselling novel, the story follows an American woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) living in Paris investigating the arrest of Jewish families that took place there in 1942. In the process uncovers a personal connection with a 10-year-old girl (Melusine Mayance) caught up in events.
The French and English-language movie unfolds across parallel story lines. Paquet-Brenner and Serge Joncour adapted the script and a 2011 release is planned.
When We Leave
Olive Films has picked up U.S. rights to German director Feo Aladag's "When We Leave" for an early 2011 release. Sibel Kekilli ("Head-On") stars as an abused wife ostracized by her devout Muslim family.
The distributor also recently picked up the cloning drama "Womb" starring Matt Smith and Eva Green.
Nice Guy Johnny
Myriad Pictures...
The Weinstein Co. has scored all U.S. rights to Gilles Paquet-Brenner's "Sarah's Key" starring Kristin Scott Thomas.
Based on Tatiana de Rosnay's bestselling novel, the story follows an American woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) living in Paris investigating the arrest of Jewish families that took place there in 1942. In the process uncovers a personal connection with a 10-year-old girl (Melusine Mayance) caught up in events.
The French and English-language movie unfolds across parallel story lines. Paquet-Brenner and Serge Joncour adapted the script and a 2011 release is planned.
When We Leave
Olive Films has picked up U.S. rights to German director Feo Aladag's "When We Leave" for an early 2011 release. Sibel Kekilli ("Head-On") stars as an abused wife ostracized by her devout Muslim family.
The distributor also recently picked up the cloning drama "Womb" starring Matt Smith and Eva Green.
Nice Guy Johnny
Myriad Pictures...
- 9/12/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The Weinstein Co. has swooped in and scooped up all U.S. rights to Gilles Paquet-Brenner's "Sarah's Key," starring Kristin Scott Thomas.
The company had been tracking the film since Harvey Weinstein saw a promo reel in Cannes in May, and the actual deal was concluded last week.
But that still allowed TWC to stake a claim for the first buy actually announced at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Based on Tatiana de Rosnay's bestselling novel "Elle s'appelait Sarah," which was adapted by Paquet-Brenner and Serge Joncour, the film follows Scott Thomas, an American living in Paris, as she researches the arrest of Jewish families in Paris in 1942. In the process -- as the French and English-language movie unfolds in parallel story lines -- she discovers she shares a connection with a 10-year-old girl, played by Melusine Mayance, who was caught up in the arrests.
"Harvey really sparked...
The company had been tracking the film since Harvey Weinstein saw a promo reel in Cannes in May, and the actual deal was concluded last week.
But that still allowed TWC to stake a claim for the first buy actually announced at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Based on Tatiana de Rosnay's bestselling novel "Elle s'appelait Sarah," which was adapted by Paquet-Brenner and Serge Joncour, the film follows Scott Thomas, an American living in Paris, as she researches the arrest of Jewish families in Paris in 1942. In the process -- as the French and English-language movie unfolds in parallel story lines -- she discovers she shares a connection with a 10-year-old girl, played by Melusine Mayance, who was caught up in the arrests.
"Harvey really sparked...
- 9/11/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.