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Secret, A
Strand Releasing
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Cecile De France,
Patrick Bruel,
Ludivine Sagnier,
Julie Depardieu,
and
Mathieu Amalric
A Secret follows the saga of a Jewish family in post-World War II Paris. François, a solitary, imaginative child, invents for himself a brother as well as the story of his parents` past. But on his fifteenth birthday, he discovers a dark family secret that ties his family`s history to the Holocaust and shatters his illusions forever. Adapted from Philippe Grimbert`s celebrated truth-inspired novel, Memory. (Strand Releasing)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
War
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Philippe Grimbert (novel)
Claude Miller
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Claude Miller
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 10, 2009
Theatrical: September 5, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
105 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French |
Alternative Title: Un secret

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A complicated family story that takes place in three distinct time periods, and that's handled with astonishing ease and fluidity by director Claude Miller.

88
TV Guide
Ken Fox
A gripping mystery and an ever-timely reminder of the terrible power of repression and silence.

83
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
A Secret is suitably tense, sad, and deeply poignant as it moves toward an epilogue exploring the idea that everything rots and decays, no mater how well-maintained.

80
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Nearly every melodramatic impulse has been suppressed in favor of a calm precision that serves both to intensify and delay the emotional impact of the film’s climactic disclosures.

80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A clanking, old-fashioned period drama infused with almost unbearable grief, Claude Miller's film A Secret has an enormous significance in France that it can never possess elsewhere.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The filmmaker's decision to shoot the past in color and the present in murky black and white is an inspired visual translation of psychological truth.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The acting is exceptional. If parts of A Secret veer toward soap opera, the ensemble work reduces the suds to a minimum.

70
Chicago Reader
Joshua Katzman
Bittersweet drama.

70
NPR
Bob Mondello
Claude Miller's ravishingly shot drama A Secret gives up its titular mystery early, so it may seem odd to speak of the suspense it generates.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A harrowing and wrenching coming-of-age story.

70
Variety
Dennis Harvey
A fine drama that stands as Gallic vet Claude Miller's best in at least a decade.

70
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
Deepened by its complex back-and-forth chronology, deft shifts in perspective, and a significantly counterintuitive color-coding of past and present, A Secret suggests that it's not illicit passion, but rather the crime of denial, that has screwed up this family down the generations.

60
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Beautifully acted and exquisitely photographed, director Claude Miller's superb drama, from Philippe Grimbert's autobiographical novel, is awash with the ripples created by unlived lives.

50
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The fractured timeline covers five decades, which Miller weaves together, with the past shot in color and the present in black and white. Still, the soapy climax is unnecessary.

50
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A structural mess that turns contrived just when it should be hitting home.


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