![]() Its reputation has been improved in some critical circles, much as the majority of Losey’s artistic output has been rehabilitated. Losey’s Monsieur Klein met with much criticism in its day but nonetheless managed a Cannes Film nomination in 1976. Though in the end Sarah’s Key won no Academy Awards, the film’s popularity and commercial success brought excitement and praise, but many had to remind the general public that this dark event in French history had been addressed on film before, namely through Joseph Losey’s Monsieur Klein of 1976. 2 The grisly, if somewhat heavy-handedly melodramatic, metaphor of the brother locked away, but inescapably not forgotten on a psychological level, represents well the horrors of suppressed memory on the national, perhaps international, conscience. Sarah’s Key reveals a subtle conspiracy, especially among the French, to bury or tacitly agree to ignore the unpleasant memory of France’s complicity-albeit under great duress-in La Rafle du Vel d’Hiv. Not long ago two seemingly unrelated items in film news garnered a good deal of media attention: success and popularity of the film Sarah’s Key (2010) 1 and Alcon Entertainment’s announcement that Ridley Scott will do a prequel or sequel to Blade Runner (1982).Īs for the first of these items, the success of Sarah’s Key made painfully clear the public’s forgetfulness, not only of Holocaust history, but also film history. ![]() ![]() Ridley's Key: The Forgotten Influence of Joseph Losey in Blade Runner Issue 4: Ridley's Key - The Forgotten Influence of Joseph Losey in Blade Runner ![]()
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