newsurl.net (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
A coming-of-age tale in which a boy learns of his family's fate as a result of the Nazi's occupatio 1 Vote(s)
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
The secret uncovered by an adolescent in 1950s Paris is strikingly specific, yet echoes with the history of millions: A frail only child (Quentin Dubuis) of athletic parents (Cécile De France and Patrick Bruel) learns he had a half brother, whose fate was caught up with that of countless other French Jews in the Nazi era. Claude Miller's adaptation of Philippe Grimbert's spare, autobiographical novel...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
A.O. Scott over at the Times loves A Secret , Claude Miller’s "haunting" new film adaptation of a French novel by Philippe Grimbert. The movie skips through time, covering the pre and post war lives of a fractured Jewish family in France. Scott calls it a story of "confused passion and ethical struggle" that "leaves in place a sense that something horribly and splendidly strange can lie under the...
Salon (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The Venice Film Festival takes risks while Toronto promises gems like Claire Denis' "35 rhums," an intimate movie about the pleasures of home -- and knowing when to leave it.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
I first saw veteran French director Claude Miller's "A Secret" at a film festival last year. I was underwhelmed. I saw it again a few weeks ago, and was more impressed, although still bothered by its shameless sentimentality. Based on true events...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
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.
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Claude Miller's wrenching "A Secret" distills the French nation's Nazi-era guilt into one family's incredible-but-true wartime story.
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Claude Miller’s ambitious drama uncovers the secrets of a Jewish couple living in occupied France.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
"Based on the roman � clef by Philippe Grimbert, a French-Jewish psychoanalyst whose parents committed suicide when he was young, Claude Miller's World War II domestic drama is unusually attentive to the way that the Holocaust disrupted lives that...
News & Information (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
‘A Secret,” the French director Claude Miller’s new film, opens with a mesmerizing little scene set in the summer of 1955. A skinny, squinting boy (Valentin Vigourt) trails his mother, Tania (Ccile de……Read more
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
News: Arrow Films have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of A Secret on 6th October 2008 priced at £17.99 RRP. Writer-director Claude Miller's adaptation of Philippe Grimbert's bestselling novel, A Secret stars Cécile De France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine...
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
The poster for the Claude Miller’s (Little Lili) upcoming drama “A Secret” has been released. “A Secret” is an emotionally gripping drama with strong performances and impressive...
Latest Movie Trailers (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
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,...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
A Girl Cut in Two is "a rich, textured divertissement from Claude Chabrol, a sinister master of the art, who, after a series of vague if invariably entertaining cinematic sketches, has returned to elegant tight form with an erotically...
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
ComingSoon.net talks with sexy French superstar Ludivine Sagnier ( Swimming Pool ) about her two upcoming films, Claude Chabrol's A Girl Cut in Two , which opens on Friday, and Claude Miller's A Secret , which opens in New York on September 10.
