Sarah's Key

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Watched With: Myself

Really liked this one, It's a bit of a different angle to look at the holocaust. There's a duel narrative, the modern day mystery of tracking down what happened to this girl Sarah and then the period story of the events themselves. They are intercut back and forth.

The majority of the flashbacks are at the start with Sarah being taken to the camps and trying to escape and get back to her brother. The latter half focuses more on chasing up the family members. Needless to say the harsher stuff is in the first half. The Period stuff all works really well, beautifully realised. The latter half is more just family revelation drama and it's all good, it has some nice payoffs but there's not way it's going to be as strong as the first half.

It really does feel like a big story following multiple family members over decades and continents. Makes a great watch on a Sunday arvo. Great drama and I learnt a few things too.