We received feedback from 29 members and guests, following the screening of Sarah’s Key on 7th June.
Here’s how you rated the film:
- ‘Excellent’: 23 votes
- ‘Very Good’: 5 votes
- ‘Good’: 0 votes
- ‘Satisfactory’: 0 votes
- ‘Poor’: 1 vote
See the first reply to this post for the comments made on the response slips. If you didn’t leave comments on the night or, having had time to reflect, you wish to say more about the film, we would welcome your replies.
‘Excellent’: 23 votes
=> Excellent. A real eye opener.
=> Very impressive
=> Moving
=> V. moving and disturbing / Thought provoking and makes one wonder how we would react
=> A different take on the normal Holocaust stories (with Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts, would we have acted differently, had the Germans invaded Britain?). Profoundly moving.
=> And about rightly timed for those of us who saw something of all that war + were about that age. Many aspects weren’t quite understood – explained to some extent in this film.
=> Liked the way the past & present was linked. Great music & it looked good.
=> Very emotional but handled without verging into over sentimentality.
=>. Great even second time around. Very affecting.
=> Very absorbing.
=> Very true to the book. Excellent viewing/powerful
=> Sometimes the music made the dialogue difficult to hear.
=> A thought-provoking tearjerker.
=> Best kept ‘til last
=> Holocaust meets Hollywood.
‘Very Good: 5 votes
=> As good as mainstream cinema gets – so [?] so good!
=> Very moving
=> Just a very gripping story. Extremely moving
‘Poor’: 1 vote
=> A film of two halves. 1st half, sensitively acted, harrowing & heartbreaking but from the moment Michel was found it descended into Hollywood CHEESE of the highest order. Shame, as it could have been a great film. The polar opposite of In Darkness. Shame!