A Secret (2007)
Just after World War II, a French Jewish boy discovers that there is a dark and tragic secret in his family history. The story is told between the present, where Francois (Mathieu Amalric) searches for his wayward father on the streets of Paris, and two sets of flashbacks: Francois as a child watching his parents live out the seemingly perfect love and before his parents were married, when the two of them were living decidedly different lives. I'm not going to give anything away, but the movie's not about what the secret is so much as about how it affects the lives of the characters. Apparently, this is based on a true story. I really like Mathieu Amalric, whether he's playing the Bond bad guy in Quantum of Solace or here where he's the less-favored son.
My Netflix rating: 4 stars
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