The secret uncovered by an adolescent in 1950s Paris is strikingly specific, yet echoes with the history of millions.
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09/17/08
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Un Secret (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 17
Fresh: 13
Rotten:4
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Rated: 15
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release: 09-05-2008
Starring: Cecile de France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu
Director: Claude Miller
Reviews for Un Secret
1 - 17 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
A Secret illuminates the most intimate personal histories against a perfectly detailed political and cultural background. It finds glorious forgiveness where it can, and accepts that when that can't be done, it just can't be done.
09/12/08
Both a gripping mystery and an ever-timely reminder of the terrible power of repression and silence.
09/05/08
If identity is at the soul of A Secret, a tragic romance is its heart.
09/05/08
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.
09/05/08
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.
09/05/08
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.
09/05/08
Claude Miller's haunting new movie is called A Secret. But the gist of this story of repression and family tragedy is that secrets are rarely singular.
09/05/08
Top Critic 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.
09/04/08
A throwback to an era when studios made star-laden, period melodramas that balanced sentiment and weighty issues in the name of entertainment.
09/04/08
A Secret takes the tired approach of a child viewing history through the quirks of his family, which worked only slightly better in last year’s Blame it On Fidel.
09/03/08
Transcends the perhaps perceived banality of still another film about the Holocaust with a marvelously nuanced narrative floating through time with memorable characters who never beg for our pity.
09/03/08
Demonstrating the effect of the Holocaust on one family four decades later, 'A Secret' deftly demonstrates William Faulkner's saying, 'The past is not dead: it is not even past.'
08/19/08
I was not prepared for the climactic emotional devastation, but as all the pieces fall into place, the film crystallises as perfectly as Tania's flawless backward high dive piercing through the clear water with beauty and precision
05/12/08
mia allokoti domi tainias mesa se tainia poy diakoptetai apo alli tainia, ospoy sto telos ksehnas kai poio itan to mystiko, kai poios einai o allos poy soy to ekrybe, kai pote emfanistike aytos poy tha to mathei kai giati soy to lene esena stin teliki.
05/06/08
The almost egregiously deliberate pace with which Miller has infused the production ultimately turns out to be far more problematic than one might initially have suspected...
04/06/08
Though occasional stylistic flourishes feel unnecessary, Un secret makes for compelling viewing and Cécile de France and Patrick Bruel finally prove they are bona fide star material.
03/10/08
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