Elle s'appelait Sarah (2010)

In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942.

Unpretentious drama is touching and revealing, but at times falls a bit into melodrama.

Maltin***1/2: "Understated but deeply moving drama...illuminates this wrenching moment in history more artfully than LE RAFLE (THE ROUNDUP)..."

Un soupçon d'innocence (2010)

 

 

In a rural setting on the weather-beaten French Atlantic coast, the ten year old daughter of a single mother is implicated in murder, but crime scene evidence contradicts the story of the talented, introverted child as expressed in her Mangas.

 

Above-average TV crime thriller has a good cast, some psychological depth and atmosphere, although the plot itself seems quite implausible.