A Secret (Un Secret) Critic Reviews

A complicated family story that takes place in three distinct time periods, and that's handled with astonishing ease and fluidity by director Claude Miller.Read the full review

A Secret is suitably tense, sad, and deeply poignant as it moves toward an epilogue exploring the idea that everything rots and decays, no mater how well-maintained.Read the full review

Nearly every melodramatic impulse has been suppressed in favor of a calm precision that serves both to intensify and delay the emotional impact of the film’s climactic disclosures.Read the full review

The filmmaker's decision to shoot the past in color and the present in murky black and white is an inspired visual translation of psychological truth.Read the full review

A harrowing and wrenching coming-of-age story.Read the full review

A fine drama that stands as Gallic vet Claude Miller's best in at least a decade.Read the full review