Un secret

Paris in the springtime, Paris in the fall. Paris when it drizzles and when it sizzles, and of course Paris in April. In the words of Cole Porter, “Until you’ve lived a lot, and loved a lot, and lost a lot, you don’t know Paree.” People busily living, loving and losing amid the exhilaration and frustrations of life in Porter’s “timeless town” animate Cédric Klapisch’s panoramic “Paris,” a highlight [...] Vai alla recensione »

Claude Miller's haunting new movie, based on a novel by Philippe Grimbert, is called “A Secret” (“Un Secret”). But the gist of this story of repression and family tragedy is that secrets are rarely singular. What is hidden from sight and excluded from discussion has a tendency to multiply and expand. Scrupulously following the path laid down by Mr.

That Nazi evil was so pervasive and widespread has yielded, over the decades, a steady stream of splendid films illuminating the myriad aspects of the Holocaust and, in turn, the equally myriad facets of human nature. Adapted by the veteran French director Claude Miller from Philippe Grimbert's autobiographical novel, "A Secret" is one of the finest.