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Gilles Paquet-Brenner is known for:

  • Sarah's Key
    On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
  • Dark Places
    A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
  • Crooked House
    A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.

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Biography

Gilles Paquet-Brenner (born 14 September 1974) is a French director and screenwriter. He is the son of the opera singer Ève Brenner. Paquet-Brenner's first feature film in 2001, Pretty Things, won an award at the Deauville American Film Festival. In 2009, Paquet-Brenner directed the low-budget and direct-to-DVD but generally positively received film, Walled In. Source: Article "Gilles Paquet-Brenner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.