A Secret

Name: A Secret
Genre: Drama, War
Released: September 5, 2008
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 72

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: September 5, 2008

Summary: 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.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)… Expand

Director: Claude Miller

Genre(s): Drama, War

Runtime: 105 min

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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. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

A gripping mystery and an ever-timely reminder of the terrible power of repression and silence. Read full review

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. Read full review

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. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

A fine drama that stands as Gallic vet Claude Miller's best in at least a decade. Read full review

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. Read full review

Ty Burr

A structural mess that turns contrived just when it should be hitting home. Read full review

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KenG

Nov 11, 2008

I suppose there is an interesting story to tell here, but this movie tells it in such a tedious and (unnecessarily) round-about way, that it sucks all the poignancy, pathos, and power right out of this story.

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SusanC.

Oct 7, 2008

Please, don't waste two hours of your lifetime watching this movie.

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