The story combines two narratives and is set in the present as a journalist, Julia, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, tries to discover the history of a flat in Paris owned by her husband's family, which was confiscated from a Jewish family. These two narratives, one, in the present, is a trivial romance narrative about Julia's marriage and the other, told in flashback, relates some of the most dreadful events in the history of humanity. Of course combining two such contrasting stories cannot work successfully, as several critics have commented.
Kristin Scott Thomas is excellent in her part and the film inevitably has several very moving moments in relating these terrible and shameful events, but it is nevertheless related with too many ponderous and cliched cinematic moments.
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